Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

We live in a time of excess, too much information, too many images, too many things, not enough meaning. I create from that chaos, working with fragments and discarded materials, building layers until something new emerges. The work holds tension, not control. I want it to speak for itself. I want people to see themselves in it, to recognize something without being told what it is.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration in the disorder of the present, in what feels unstable, excessive, or overlooked. I’m drawn to what gets left behind, worn materials, discarded images, fragments from another time. I’m interested in that edge where something loses value but hasn’t disappeared, where the mundane starts to feel open again. There’s a tension between what we keep producing and what we’re quietly losing, and that space drives the work.

What would you do with $25,000?

I would use it to create an immersive gathering that brings together art, music, and media into a shared environment. A space that pulls people out of the present and into something more physical and real. The work wouldn’t just be seen, it would be felt. I want to create something that doesn’t exist for one moment, but continues through the people inside it, generating new connections, new ideas, new forms.