As artists are the mythmakers of their time, my images are creating a new mythology of
“becoming” using symbols and archetypes filtered through contemporary popular culture.
The spaces I create are irrational, like Alice’s adventure, I am meeting new characters along
the way, arising from my subconscious. In a constant state of flux, I am uncovering an
abundant transformation of forms: molecular, becoming bodily, becoming nature, becoming
spiritual, becoming sexual, becoming woman. All given form in a poisonous garden of
internal desires and fears.
Since I was a child I have know my destiny was to become an artist. Throughout my entire
life this has driven my every action. My artwork is the result of a deep internal search for
personal truth which takes many physical forms. Through the creation of art I explore the
journey of my individuation as a human being.
An inquiring mind has developed my interest in psychology and philosophy, especially that
of Deleuze, Jung, and Freud. Each work I create, delves into the depths of my unconscious
revealing truths hidden within my psyche. In this way, my work can be considered Surrealist
in nature, also in the game-like elements, where I layer materials, found objects, and text
with ideas. I am intrigued by story telling especially that of Lewis Carroll; also mythology,
fairy tales, and nursery rhymes, in which I investigate threads of a collective unconscious.
These stories unconsciously flow through my work in a disjunctive Surrealist form that
provides endless curiosities for the viewer. I am also influenced by popular culture and
cartoons I saw as a child. These reemerge in strange forms through the anamorphous
figures that populate my paintings. They don’t have a direct storyline, only one that evolves
with the work as it is created. I don’t make sketches for my paintings because each work is
individual and unique to itself, growing as an organism would.
One theme that has guided me is Deleuze's idea of "becoming". It involves the idea that
everything is in flux, constantly changing, mutating, and becoming something else. I have
used this idea in my work to explore the development of women from girls to "becoming
woman". This is represented in the ovary-like forms becoming plants or flowers and vice
versa. My search into the depths of becoming goes so deep that the very depictions it
creates resemble intestines, flesh, blood, making the grotesque beautiful.
“becoming” using symbols and archetypes filtered through contemporary popular culture.
The spaces I create are irrational, like Alice’s adventure, I am meeting new characters along
the way, arising from my subconscious. In a constant state of flux, I am uncovering an
abundant transformation of forms: molecular, becoming bodily, becoming nature, becoming
spiritual, becoming sexual, becoming woman. All given form in a poisonous garden of
internal desires and fears.
Since I was a child I have know my destiny was to become an artist. Throughout my entire
life this has driven my every action. My artwork is the result of a deep internal search for
personal truth which takes many physical forms. Through the creation of art I explore the
journey of my individuation as a human being.
An inquiring mind has developed my interest in psychology and philosophy, especially that
of Deleuze, Jung, and Freud. Each work I create, delves into the depths of my unconscious
revealing truths hidden within my psyche. In this way, my work can be considered Surrealist
in nature, also in the game-like elements, where I layer materials, found objects, and text
with ideas. I am intrigued by story telling especially that of Lewis Carroll; also mythology,
fairy tales, and nursery rhymes, in which I investigate threads of a collective unconscious.
These stories unconsciously flow through my work in a disjunctive Surrealist form that
provides endless curiosities for the viewer. I am also influenced by popular culture and
cartoons I saw as a child. These reemerge in strange forms through the anamorphous
figures that populate my paintings. They don’t have a direct storyline, only one that evolves
with the work as it is created. I don’t make sketches for my paintings because each work is
individual and unique to itself, growing as an organism would.
One theme that has guided me is Deleuze's idea of "becoming". It involves the idea that
everything is in flux, constantly changing, mutating, and becoming something else. I have
used this idea in my work to explore the development of women from girls to "becoming
woman". This is represented in the ovary-like forms becoming plants or flowers and vice
versa. My search into the depths of becoming goes so deep that the very depictions it
creates resemble intestines, flesh, blood, making the grotesque beautiful.
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