Inheriting from a history of post-war American painting (abstract expressionism), my paintings present themselves as a space of ambiguity, a realm of indecision. My work seeks to bring forward fundamental questions inherent to painting itself such as depth, color, gesture, and the composition of pictorial space. Sometimes pure paint splatters, sometimes figurative elements, my work is constructed as an amalgam that reflects upon itself. It is autonomous but also suggests a varied representational imaginary. Through suggested forms, the evocative power of my painting aims to return viewers to a state of innocence where sensory experience transcends rationality.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Color serves to punctuate the journey of the gaze—attracting, concealing, or revealing. By reclaiming significant elements of an idea, the figures often construct themselves as archetypes of the human form. A human figure composed of schematic elements: a torso, an oval-shaped head, and simple lines for limbs. Contingent upon the multiplicity of sensory experiences that define us, painting can give birth to new figures through existing ones, similar to De Kooning's approach. Through coded colors and archetypal forms, I attempt to question the boundaries of a figuration that moves toward abstraction. The aim is to explore how a minimal mark manages to create representation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​