Working Principles

“Working Principles” is a collection of notes that reflect my approach to materials, process, and form. Rather than a fixed artist statement, these reflections offer a window into the evolving language of my practice, spanning drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. These principles describe how I engage in my own studio practice, not rules for others.

Visual Language

My work unfolds across drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Each medium carries its own material grammar, together forming a visual language that is intuitive, architectural, and fragmentary. Forms and shapes repeat as characters in a personal lexicon. I inhabit this language rather than decode it, allowing it to evolve as forms move between mediums.

Drawing

Drawing is the foundation of my practice. It is how I move through the world and through myself. It threads through all media, serving as scaffolding for thought, feeling, and material.

I have an intimate relationship with drawing. It is not a task but a tactile, embodied dialogue. It feels less like making something and more like being with something. Drawing is a space where I come to know what I didn’t yet know.

Color

I think of color as atmosphere. It becomes the air a form breathes. It mediates between figure and ground, between structure and void, shaping emotional and spatial experience.

Titles

I think of titles as hinges or bridges, tools that open the work without closing it down. They echo structure or counterbalance it, moving alongside the work rather than defining it.

Studio Practice

The studio is a space for inward listening.

I value embodied communication over intellectual interpretation.

I trust the voice of materials: graphite, paint, paper, wood—they speak first.

The work does not represent something else; it is the thing.

I am learning to be more open, less controlling, and to value listening over declaring.

Meaning emerges through the act, not before it.