My work examines what remains after structure begins to break down. Influenced by brutalist architecture, natural erosion, and the visual language of avant-garde fashion, I create textured mixed media paintings that exist somewhere between surface, garment, and architectural fragment.
The paintings consider endurance rather than destruction. Concrete, fabric, earth, and the human body all carry evidence of what they have survived. Through surfaces that appear eroded, buried, or reconstructed, I explore the quiet persistence of what cannot be fully erased. In a culture defined by speed and visual excess, the work offers a slower encounter with material, memory, and form.
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