Creating art lets me capture fleeting moments, express emotions, and turn everyday life into something meaningful and lasting.
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
Large-scale expressive paintings exploring distorted human emotion, where structure and chaos collide.
Where do you find inspiration?Fatherhood became a turning point in my work. It exposed raw emotional contrasts — tenderness and tension — which I explore through fragmented and distorted human forms.
What would you do with $25,000?I would use the grant to push my work into a more ambitious scale, creating a new series and presenting it in a curated exhibition that expands beyond the canvas into a spatial experience.
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