My paintings explore the visual language humanity has carried across cultures for thousands of

years—from prehistoric markings and archaeological remnants to mythology, graffiti, maps, and

contemporary urban surfaces. I am interested in the ways symbols, textures, and layered histories

continue to shape our collective memory, long after their original meanings have faded.

Working between abstraction and representation, I build each painting through an accumulation of

materials and gestures. Oil, acrylic, collage, encaustic, photography, textiles, screen printing, found

objects, and natural materials become a vocabulary rather than simply a collection of media. Each

layer records a decision, conceals another, and contributes to a surface that feels excavated as

much as constructed. Layering mirrors the accumulation of memory, history, and experience,

allowing the paintings to evolve through discovery rather than illustration.

Having spent much of my life in New York and Chicago, I was deeply influenced by the immediacy

of graffiti and the visual density of urban environments. At the same time, a lifelong fascination with

anthropology, ancient cultures, mythology, and the history of art has drawn me toward imagery that

feels timeless rather than contemporary. My work exists where these worlds intersect—where

primal marks meet modern cities, where personal memory overlaps with cultural history, and where

abstraction becomes a universal language.

Although the paintings often begin intuitively, they are guided by a search for connection. I am less

interested in depicting a specific narrative than in creating spaces that invite contemplation and

recognition. I want the viewer to feel as though they are encountering something both deeply

familiar and impossible to place—like the memory of a dream, an artifact uncovered from another

civilization, or a wall layered with generations of human presence.

For me, painting is an act of excavation. It is a way of understanding both the history we inherit and

the histories we continue to create. Each work becomes part of an ongoing conversation about

what it means to leave a mark, to remember, and ultimately, to be human.