My work reflects on place and encounter, translating lived experience into images where concept, material, and format converges
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I create work that materializes ideas through materials chosen for their conceptual coherence. I question scale, surface, and context, considering each material’s historical weight. By engaging textures and objects, I move between beauty and reflection, seeking to create images that offer pause, insight, and a quiet sense of hope.
Where do you find inspiration?Draw from overlooked moments, ordinary figures, and quiet objects. Through observation and reflection, I engage questions of origin, purpose, and meaning. My practice is not about just simplifying form, but about distilling experience, seeking a clarity that reveals the quiet, essential beauty of being.
What would you do with $25,000?I would invest on renting a studio to focus my thoughts and feelings to be materialized. Buy some materials, books and tools to get some projects done; meaning personal ideas and some other inviting to participate and co create insights based on topics such as community and coexistence, looking forward to participate on exhibitions, open calls and public art. Keep searching ways to give visibility to my work.
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