My work revolves around the human figure and the fragility of existence. I paint people because it is the most natural way I have found to speak about self-questioning, discomfort, and the moments of reflection that emerge within everyday life. I am drawn to quiet gestures, silences, and ordinary moments that reveal our shared humanity.

Working primarily in oil painting, my process begins with studies of people in what I think of as a state of suspended time, where seemingly nothing is happening. I see these moments as a kind of human essence: brief instances in which we simply exist. In the end, I often find myself reflected in the people I paint, connecting with a sense of vulnerability, stillness, and the experience of inhabiting the world from a deeply inward place.

I think of this as a quiet rebellion: idleness as a form of resistance, an opportunity to lose ourselves within rather than in the endless demands of a world that never stops moving and constantly competes for our attention.

My paintings emerge from an attempt to understand these sensations and transform them into images. I want to linger over the small gestures that make us human and create honest, open works in which others may also recognize something of themselves.