I seek a cohesive way to engage with opposite forces, like visual haikus where the sacred meets the trivial.
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I make imprint-based work, art where objects press directly onto surfaces and leave their mark. Melting ink cubes, dried banana peels, crushed soda cans, fishing nets. The object does part of the painting. I think of it as “Rothko falling in love with Godzilla”, big emotional weight, unexpected humor, and always something at stake. My work is about opposing forces: fragility and mass, the comic and the catastrophic, what we leave behind and what disappears.
Where do you find inspiration?Everywhere things are about to change or disappear. An iceberg. A banana peel. A crushed can. I’m drawn to objects that carry time, that have already lived in the world. Ecological collapse, absurdist humor, the texture of things that don’t survive. I find inspiration in the gap between what something was and the trace it can leave behind.
What would you do with $25,000?This money would do one thing: give my practice the space it deserves. I’ve been making ambitious work, pressing banana peels into washi paper, throwing fishing nets across surfaces, letting objects speak for themselves, without a dedicated studio, squeezing sessions into evenings and weekends around my teaching schedule. $25,000 means a real studio in New York City, the ability to scale up my series and stop managing crazy logistics.
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