Artist statement

My practice navigates between painting, sculpture, and extensional thoughts. I concern myself with self-control, regression, mortality, self-worth, and emotional compartmentalisation.

Shaped as a cube, Sailan is the world I have created governed by gods embodying my emotions and traits: self-hatred, narcissism, mortality, immortality, love, and identity. Within this world there are characters who wonder its plains and feature as wearable sculpture that are used to create the paintings. Becoming both the subject and the tools. 

My paintings feel as if they’re struggled sculpture, and my sculptures feel as if they need a function. These two conclusions fuel my desire to for destruction and the devaluing of my work during the creative process. The wearable soft sculpture of a teddy bear and the sun allow me to full immerse myself in play, the regressive experience they give allow me to give into impulse, desire, and commit anti-social acts Treating the canvas as an object and giving the sculpture a purpose removes all value to the two objects and gives me the illusion of freedom. Once I am done playing, the paintings retire as art and the art objects retire as sculpture. Their value is restored to me when they become art.