Statement: 

My practice explores the intersection of painting, sculpture, and alchemy, to create psychological landscapes that contrast weathered man-made structures and natural elements. My work is contextualized by investigating method making through occultism, such as alchemy and manifestation, and applying these techniques to Surrealist ideologies, to create a subjective narrative. 

The alchemical process in my work transforms discarded, found objects, into a poetic variable, where the chemical reaction and transformation intuitively guides my decision-making. The ritualistic repetition of this practice leads me into both gaining and losing control of whether it will operate as a tool of destruction or construction for the narrative.

The juxtaposition between chance and manifestation functions as an attempt to justify the irrational, and support me in developing agency over the outcome of the method-making process. Pressure and contact represent the act of manifestation, centering in desires of power, while chance allows me to take initiative in the unjustifiable. The found metal objects anchor the work to the real world, whereas painted imagery is symbolic and spiritual, derived from the unconscious.