In "Swamp Works," the swamp is for me both a landscape and a state of mind—wild, raw, slow and difficult. The opposite of what we turn spaces into when we inhabit them.
Humans have always used swamps to discard the unwanted, seek refuge, or leave offerings. Even human offerings. Paradoxically it holds the freedom to exist in the unclear, balancing deep contradictions: decay and rebirth, death and extreme biology. It is both terrifying and fascinating, a place that is not easy being in and even less easy to change.
The figures and landscapes in my work embody this atmosphere, using the swamp as a symbolic language. I paint on old, used textiles from thrift stores or private homes. Carrying their own histories, structures and traces of use, these unpredictable materials mean I never start from a blank point.

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