visual art

My practice spans sculpture, installation, land art, photography, and painting. Working across these mediums allows me to respond to a place through the material, spatial, and visual language that best suits each project. Every work begins with observation and research, shaped by the surrounding environment as well as personal experience. Rather than approaching a landscape as a backdrop, I see it as an active collaborator that influences both the process and the final form.

Nature is at the core of my practice—not simply as a subject to represent, but as a philosophy through which I understand relationships, transformation, and our place within larger ecosystems. I am interested in the often-overlooked connections between people and their surroundings, and in the ways landscapes carry traces of memory, human intervention, and ecological change. These observations become a starting point for creating works that encourage a slower, more attentive way of looking.

The underlying concern of much of my work is ecological. Pollution, overconsumption, habitat loss, and the excess we generate continue to reshape natural environments, particularly marine and coastal ecosystems. I am drawn to flora and fauna not as decorative motifs, but as living indicators of environmental change—organisms that reveal adaptation, resilience, damage, or disappearance. Whenever possible, I work with reclaimed and environmentally conscious materials, allowing their histories and imperfections to remain visible as part of the work rather than concealing them beneath something new.

Research is an essential part of my process. Before making, I seek to understand the history, ecology, and social context of a site, asking what is specific to that place and what it reflects about broader environmental or cultural conditions. My work does not seek to illustrate ecological issues directly; instead, it creates situations in which ideas of fragility, accumulation, transformation, and interdependence can be experienced physically through material, scale, space, and presence.

Whether creating a site-specific installation, a temporary intervention in the landscape, a photographic series, or an object in the studio, I aim to foster a deeper awareness of the reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world. I see each work as part of an ongoing conversation rather than a fixed conclusion—an invitation to reflect on how we inhabit, shape, and are shaped by the environments around us.