My work begins in the studio with process rather than image. I build surfaces through repeated layering, covering, scraping, and reworking, allowing forms to develop through interaction over time rather than from a fixed plan. Each action alters the field and shapes what can happen next, so the painting grows through accumulation and revision.
In my paintings, color is not the starting point but a consequence. I do not approach the canvas with a palette in mind or with color as a primary expressive goal. Instead, color emerges through layering, erasing, and excavating — the result of interactions between materials over time. What matters is not the immediate optical impact, but the record of transformation embedded in the surface.
I work with clay slip, various kinds of paint, oil stick, oil pastel, and sumi ink, often using unconventional tools. These materials do not behave passively; they resist, absorb, and redirect my decisions. Scraped passages, buried marks, and exposed layers remain visible, so earlier states continue to shape the present surface. Color arises from this dialogue and remains as residue — evidence of what has occurred rather than spectacle or decoration. The painting becomes a record of time, pressure, hesitation, and change, where material memory carries more weight than immediate visual appearance.
My training in science and finance informs my sensitivity to how complex systems form through feedback and constraint, where no single action determines the outcome. In the studio, this translates into a way of working where no single mark controls the outcome. Order emerges gradually through relationships across the surface rather than from centralized design.
I am interested in painting as a temporal medium, one that can hold traces of its own becoming. By allowing revision, erosion, and material memory to remain active, the work reflects a way of thinking that values interaction, duration, and responsiveness over resolution. The painting becomes less an image than an evolving field of causes and conditions, where meaning develops through accumulated change.