ARTIST STATEMENT
FUN HOUSE: Slow Art for Fast Times, was born out of the need to make sense of a world that seems to have somehow become completely unhinged and absolutely foreign to me. Through this series of lush India ink paintings and colourful sculptures, I grapple with the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds, contemplating the threshold between them.
By observing my environment with a scientific appreciation, I have begun to reconstruct a world for myself that allows me to understand and feel included in it. I am forever chasing the experience of the natural world where I feel so small in its vastness that suddenly anything becomes possible.
SELF CONTAINED explores themes of connectedness and individuation through a series of painting and sculpture works.
Coded application of colour and symbolic use of energy sources allows me to understand notions of self, in the context of social cohesion and universal consciousness.
This body of work grapples with taboo esoteric subject matter in a way that is deeply rooted in formal approaches to art and visual narrative. It borrows heavily from modernist conventions and conceptual influences, that counterbalance the threatening subject matter.
Call it sugar coating for the soul.