Artist statement

My practice focuses on boundary states — moments where different systems meet: the internal and the external, the personal and the collective, human activity and natural processes. I am interested in subtle tensions that arise at these points of contact. Not open conflict, but states where balance is unstable and change is already present.

I started working on these themes during the pandemic, when I watched the emotional ground shift under everyone, including myself. Then I emigrated. Since then, I have been living inside the very thing I paint: the instability of identity, the effort to integrate while grieving what is left behind. I hold it together on the surface.

At the same time, another part of my work comes from long-term observation of landscapes and human activity. Through years of travelling and observing different places, I have been looking at how natural environments and human systems interact, overlap, and transform each other. These experiences became the basis for my project Limits of Intervention.

I work through color and abstract form – canvases of different formats and works on paper – where color fields press against each other, overlap, and shift. A key element of my work is the active perimeter: the painting extends onto the sides of the canvas, activating peripheral vision and turning the physical edge into a zone of pressure and transition.

My three projects: Borderline States, Integration, and Limits of Intervention move between the scale of one person and the scale of the world. The structure is often similar: a system under pressure, still holding, but only just.