Statement
My work explores how perception, memory, and time shape the way we see. Using a painted mosaic technique — composed of thousands of hand-painted, single-color squares — I investigate how physical distance and psychological proximity change our understanding of an image.Up close, each painting dissolves into abstraction: a grid of discrete color fields that resist immediate comprehension. This nearness reflects how moments in the present often feel fragmented and overwhelming. Yet as viewers step back, the image resolves. What once seemed chaotic now coalesces into a representational form — revealing scenes and faces that speak to memory, identity, and loss.
This perceptual shift is deeply influenced by Gestalt theory, particularly the idea that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” My work invites viewers to move physically and mentally, challenging them to reflect on how clarity is not always found in proximity but often emerges with distance and time.
By balancing abstraction and representation, I aim to create spaces for contemplation — places where viewers are asked to complete the image themselves and consider how understanding is an active, embodied process.