Artist Statement 

My work is about identity and how people are made up of far more than what we see on the surface. I build these portraits out of thousands of hand-painted squares, so up close the image feels fragmented and abstract, but as you step back everything begins to come together. That tension between chaos and clarity is important to me because it reflects how we actually experience ourselves psychologically.

A lot of the ideas behind the work come from Carl Jung and his theories about the psyche. I’m interested in the idea that we all carry different versions of ourselves — the face we show the world, the parts we hide, inherited memories, contradictions, archetypes — and that identity is constantly shifting rather than fixed. So when I create a portrait, I’m not trying to make just a static likeness of a person. I’m trying to build something that feels layered and psychologically alive.

Each painted square almost becomes its own piece of memory, emotion, or experience. Individually they can feel disconnected, but together they create a larger whole, much like the way people construct meaning from fragmented experiences over time. I want the work to exist in that space between fragmentation and unity, where the viewer can recognize both the image itself and maybe parts of themselves within it.