ARTIST STATEMENT

Drawing from images of regions marked by war, abandonment, and collapse, I engage in a process of reverse archaeology—not digging into what was lost, but building a new one from what has been destroyed.

Through a multilayered practice of adding, scraping, and defining, I construct worlds made of color. The paint itself becomes my guide—its movement leads the painting, setting its rhythm and breath. In this dialogue between pigment and surface, landscapes dissolve into forms and stains, breaking apart and coming together again.

Layers of ruin, strangeness, and memory accumulate on the canvas, allowing me to reconstruct my own sense of loss—born from migration and the ongoing search for belonging.

The extended process of painting becomes an alternative timeline, a way of building a new world out of the remains of the old.

Throughout this journey, I release my grip on the original image and let abstraction take over. This continuous dialogue between me and the surface remains an ongoing testimony to confrontation, experimentation, and encounter.

In my painting, I seek to create a space where destruction and construction coexist.

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