Painting Studio

My paintings operate as taxonomies of contradiction. Each image; organism, object, or symbol, functions as a node within a larger system of inquiry, selected not for aesthetic effect but for the specific argument it carries. Overlapping and partially obscured, these elements resist resolution, placed in proximity so that their relationships produce meaning that neither could hold alone. The work draws from biology, philosophy, psychology, and political history, treating each as a lens through which human behavior becomes legible. What interests me is not contradiction itself but its architecture: the way opposing forces are not opposites but dependencies, one incapable of existing without producing the other. Across landscape, still life, and layered composition, the paintings are concerned with what becomes normalized, sanctified, or rendered invisible through familiarity. The paintings do not argue for resolution. They construct conditions under which the viewer is asked to sit with what they already know and reconsider what that knowledge has cost them.