“Working Principles” is a collection of notes that reflect how I think through materials, process, and form. Rather than a fixed artist statement, these reflections offer a window into the evolving language of my practice— across drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking.

Visual Language

My work unfolds across drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking, each medium contributing its own material grammar. I think of this as a visual language. It’s intuitive, architectural, and fragmentary.

Forms and shapes repeat, not as motifs, but as characters within a personal lexicon. This language holds space for memory, presence, and what I consider sacred. I’m not trying to decode it. I’m trying to inhabit it. It’s living and evolving, shaped through cross-pollination and fluid migration between mediums.

Drawing

Drawing is the foundation of my practice. It’s how I move through the world and through myself. It’s a thread that weaves through all media, a kind of scaffolding for thought, feeling, and material.

I have an intimate relationship with drawing. It’s not a task but a tactile, embodied dialogue. It feels less like making something and more like being with something. Drawing is not simply an approach. It’s a space, an arena 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, structure and void. It’s the space of liminality, emotional weather, internal climate.

Titles

I think of titles as hinges or bridges, like tools that open the work without closing it down. They echo structure or they counterbalance it. They move alongside the work.

Studio Practice

The studio is a place 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 doesn’t represent something else, it is the thing.

I’m learning to be more open, less controlling. To value listening over declaring.

Meaning emerges through the act, not before it.