Artist Statement 

My work uses a painted mosaic technique made up of thousands of individually painted squares of color. I use these fragments to explore how we perceive the world, how memories change over time, and how we create a sense of meaning from incomplete pieces.

Up close, the paintings can feel fragmented and almost abstract. Individual squares become the focus, and the recognizable image begins to disappear. As you move farther away, those pieces start to connect and the image gradually comes into focus. Both views are part of the work. Neither the fragment nor the whole tells the entire story.

For me, this shifting perspective mirrors the way memory works. Experiences can feel scattered or difficult to understand while we are living through them. With time and distance, individual moments can begin to connect, and something that once felt fragmented can take on a larger meaning.

I am interested in the tension between what we see and what we understand. Our minds naturally look for patterns and connections, creating something whole from separate pieces. The paintings use that process as both their structure and their subject.

Ultimately, the image we recognize is something we construct from fragments. The paintings ask us to consider how much of what we remember, perceive, and understand is already shaped by the way we put those pieces together.