Metamorphosis (2022-24)

This series began without a destination. I started with abstract marks—gestural, intuitive—and followed them like breadcrumbs until figures emerged. The process itself became the subject: how meaning crystallizes from uncertainty, how the hand discovers what the mind didn't plan. What surfaced were archetypes caught between states—human and animal, presence and absence, connection and isolation. For me, Metamorphosis carries double meaning: the transformational relationship between humans and the natural world, and my own shift from digital/photographic work to pure acrylic on canvas. After years of constructing images through photography and collage, painting felt like starting over—learning to trust the accident, the blur, the moment when control gives way to discovery. These works laid the foundation for Blurred Realities. They ask the same questions about perception and identity, but through traditional means. The body as subject. The canvas as membrane. Paint as a way of showing how we simultaneously construct and obscure ourselves.