My work explores how intimacy and desire are shaped by digitally mediated images — and what happens when those images meet a physical body. I draw from found imagery: anime, art history, online archives. These are pictures already transformed by repetition, fantasy, and distance.

Painting interrupts them. The slow, manual act of making introduces delay, friction, and vulnerability into images built for frictionless flow. The hand becomes a kind of resistance — a refusal of seamlessness.

I’m drawn to the moment when immersion breaks: when a figure on a screen starts to feel like it belongs somewhere else, somewhere material. In that rupture, the act of looking becomes uncertain — and something new opens up between image, body, and viewer.