My art explores the metaphysics of the unknown.

I approach abstraction as a feverish fragmentation of knowing; a form of illegibility that arises from the repressed and secretive. I search for compositions intuitively and by abstracting conspiratorial and perceptual subjects. The surfaces both suppress and reveal through layers that reflect various forms of unknowing: subconscious desires, distant memories, faded dreams, buried secrets, destroyed evidence, conspiracy theories, information overload, AI hallucinations, subliminal messages, disinformation, manufactured consent.

Working in mixed media, I explore the slippage, bleeding, and layering of wet and dry materials as an allegory of spreading, obscuring, and mutating information. I begin by deriving digital images from rabbit hole internet searches into conspiratorial and secretive subjects. I then embed these images into the substance of my paintings by blending printed pictures into a paper mache pulp and scanning colors from the images to produce custom latex paints. Through these processes I imbue materials with deconstructed images, dissembling information in response to a present moment of epistemic crisis.

Gripped by obsession with the unknown, my work speaks to a paranoid uncertainty: the urge to cast off illusion and reveal hidden realities; the suspicion that everything happens for a reason. The result is a body of work trapped in a state of vertiginous incredulity.