The Pre-Painterly

In response to the oft-repeated declaration that "painting is dead," my practice proposes that artistic development need not proceed only toward post-painterly forms such as installation, performance, or digital media. Instead, I explore the possibility of moving in the opposite direction: toward a pre-painterly condition.

To this end, I employ non-canonical materials that emerged in the modern and contemporary era—colored pencils, crayons, and marker pens—treating them as instruments of the pre-painterly rather than as conventional fine-art media. Likewise, I regard drawing the human figure without reference models and the use of reverse perspective as manifestations of a pre-painterly mode, recalling visual traditions that were widespread before the Renaissance, such as icons, Yamato-e painting, and cave pa

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