During my residency at GlogauAIR, I have been developing a painting practice concerned with the unstable moment before an image becomes fixed. I begin without deciding on a specific motif.

Lines, colours and forms are placed, layered, erased and painted over. When an image begins to settle into something recognisable, I often intervene again, allowing it to collapse or shift into another state.

Rather than working toward a predetermined composition, I am interested in the continuous movement between emergence and disappearance. This process is informed by phenomenology and by the Buddhist idea of form and emptiness.

I am interested not in illustrating these ideas, but in testing them through the physical act of painting: how something can appear, become identifiable, lose its stability, and emerge again as something else. Oil paint is important to this process because it preserves time.

Previous decisions remain as stains, edges, buried colours and partially erased forms. The finished painting is therefore not a single resolved image, but a record of repeated acts of seeing, destroying and seeing again.

For the Virtual Open Studios, I would like to present finished paintings alongside works in progress, details and, if possible, a time-lapse video. Together, these materials reveal the painting not simply as an object, but as an unstable event that continues to change through the act of looking.