Paintings
Three Thematic Exhibitions
These paintings begin as computational image constructs, developed through the fusion of Sumi ink drawings, photographs, and generative source material using intelligent photo-compositing. They are developed for realization as unique archival pigment paintings on Belgian linen, each with an embedded RFID identifier for authentication and provenance.
Gifts from the Desert is a body of work that draws on the desert’s ancient religious and symbolic significance. Hot, dry, and unforgiving, the desert is also a place of spiritual solitude, raw beauty, and vast stillness. Its gifts, the austere horizon that sharpens perception, the heat that brings edges into relief, exposure that forces self-reliance, and an appreciation that every sign of life is precious. Growing up in a household of instability and unpredictability required the same survival skills. For me, art was more than a refuge. It was a map into the rich inner landscape of my imagination, and a journey into self that allowed me the means to make art that resonates on a deeply spiritual level, and is expansive, aspirational, moving, and profound.
Fragments of an Unspoken Epic Poem is a series of 24 satirical paintings based on an imagined Eastern epic poem that unfolds as disjunctive cantos and brought to life in a fictional and historical art exhibit. Blending humor with reverence, each painting is structured in three vertical realms: Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld. Rooted in Eastern cosmologies, this triadic form reflects cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Here, the underworld is imagined as not only a place of suffering, but also one of wisdom, transformation, and moral ambiguity. A dark reflection of the celestial sphere, the underworld emerges as a distorted symmetrical mirror of heaven, where light and shadow blur the boundaries between perceived good and evil, challenging conventional notions of morality.
Thresholds are never only about crossing space; they’re the architecture of change and the definition of tension and drama. They exist as a temporal seam between one state of being to another. one place or time to another, one existence to another. They can be gates, bridges, shorelines, dawn, dusk, borders, wedding vows, or even the silent pause before speaking. They can be one molecule thin yet so absolute — a step, a breath, a glance, or a change in light can be so immense. These vertical paintings present thresholds as a ritual crossing in the moment before. They read as a state of suspension and heightened possibility suggesting an unstable balance in transformation.