Statement

My paintings of corals serve as a vehicle for formal and conceptual explorations of painting as a language and my own identity and artistic persona. Through an experimentation with color, form, structure, and sensorial beauty, I paint the corals as a phenomena of life and nature’s beauty that is disappearing.

Coral exists through processes of formation and erosion, sustaining and sheltering life,

while continuously shaped and altered by the conditions that surround it. I am drawn to this threshold—where something continues to exist, yet is already within the flow of transformation and loss.

Through layering, covering, and partial erasure, I construct surfaces in which blooming and dissolution occur simultaneously. Forms are never fixed; they move fluidly between emergence and disappearance, presence and absence.

Throughout the process of painting, the corals are not merely a subject but a site of reflection, in which their conditions are not separate from our own.

We, too, are formed and sustained within our environments, while constantly shifting and destabilizing. What appears stable is already within a process of change.

My work inhabits this in-between space— where beauty and fragility are inseparable, and where existence is shaped not only from within, but through external conditions that wound, dissolve, and transform it. It ultimately reflects our own condition: that we are inseparable from the same continuum of life.