Recent Works (2024-2026)
Psychogeography refers to the ways our environments shape our emotions, perceptions, and experiences. During meandering jogs and outdoor painting sessions, I look for combinations of color, shape, and light that feel exciting, expansive, or charged with energy. These encounters become starting points for paintings developed through memory, observation, distortion, and imagination. Back in the studio, I often combine multiple vantage points and moments in time, allowing the paintings to shift between recognizable spaces and more abstract passages. Layered marks and varied applications of paint accumulate to create a sense of movement, texture, and time. These unstable landscapes explore how wonder can be found in the banal. Rather than depicting a specific place, the works consider how physical environments are filtered through subjective experience, becoming intertwined with memory, emotion, and imagination.
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