Layers of Practice

My work grows out of close observation and research into how humans experience, shape, and remember place. Each body of work begins with a process of study: walking, drawing, photography, material exploration, reading, and paying attention to the traces that remain in the environment. These investigations often lead to distinct series, each with its own form and visual language, but all connected by a curiosity about how memory, perception, and human presence are embedded in the world around us.

Some series draw from ancient spaces, such as Aesthetic Primitive and Contemporary Cartographies, where hand-carved caves or archaeological ruins become frameworks for exploring containment, history, and the marks left across centuries. Light Mappings, focus on the fleeting qualities of light, color, and movement, moments that exist only for an instant and then dissolve into memory.

Though each project takes a different approach, what ties them together is an attention to the shapes and surfaces that hold experience: the curve of a wall, the shadow across stairs, the shifting hue of snow, or the distortion of light underwater. Through drawing and painting, I work to transform these observations into visual languages that capture both the permanence of structures and the ephemerality of perception.

In this way, my practice moves between the ancient and the contemporary, the solid and the ephemeral, seeking connections that reveal how we see, how we remember, and how we inhabit the spaces around us.

Light Mappings

Light Mappings traces the shifting behavior of light as it moves across built and natural forms. These works explore how illumination fractures, softens, and reshapes the spaces we inhabit or observe—from architectural interiors to snow-covered mountains. Whether through structured geometries or simplified organic contours, each painting maps a moment when light transforms the visible world into something briefly abstract, atmospheric, and alive.

Contemporary Cartographies: traces and transformations of Knidos

This body of work is situated between the antiquity of the 4th century BCE and our contemporary moment, exploring how layers of history remain present in the landscape of modern-day Datça, Türkiye. Primarily created while in residence in Datça in the summer of 2025, the series takes the ancient city of Knidos, primarily Palaia Knidos (also known as Burgaz) as both subject and framework: a place where time, memory, and human presence intersect.

Aesthetic Primitive

The Aesthetic Primitive Series was created as a response to the drawings made on location during residency in Cappadocia, Turkey. I was very interested in the feeling of being held and contained within the ancient hand-carved caves. I noticed the curvilinear and organic forms of the walls and doors. It gave the feeling of being inside a warm, comforting space.