Artist Statement

My practice is rooted in the act of drawing as a tool for accessing and witnessing the unconscious. Each morning, upon waking, I create automatic drawings, working quickly to capture the lingering, often fragmented impressions left by dreams. These drawings are not illustrations of specific images but intuitive responses to internal states, gestural marks that map emotion, presence, and memory before language can intervene.

This process is both intimate and ritualized, a quiet way of tracing what cannot be directly seen. I approach drawing as a kind of psychological cartography, layering texture, absence, and rhythm to uncover subtle internal landscapes. Over time, these works begin to reveal patterns and symbolic logic that reside beneath conscious thought.

My current body of work investigates how these private, unconscious markings can exist in public or shared space, installed with the sound of heartbeats, exploring shifts in perception during viewing. I’m interested in how stillness and sensitivity can be made visible; how a drawing can act as both an imprint and a witness. They serve not as explanations, but as traces, remnants of what disappears when waking begins.