PORTRAITS

Early work in pencil and charcoal. An attempt to understand human presence by studying faces - public figures, friends, strangers.

At the time, I was learning to observe carefully.

Technical Explorations

Experimental work in acrylic, oil, and watercolor.

Landscapes, abstractions, figurative explorations - learning how different materials think, how paint moves, what color can do.

This was about building vocabulary. Trying things. Following curiosity across techniques and subjects without committing to any single approach.

TEMPORARY ORDER

After a personal crisis, I needed to put something back together. I started arranging natural materials - acorns, rice, stones - into geometric patterns. Each piece existed only long enough to be photographed before being dismantled.

This was about containment. About learning to hold intense feelings in structured form before releasing them and beginning again.

The work taught me patience and presence. It also taught me surrender and the limits of control.

RECENT WORK

Recent work in oil pastel. After the temporary arrangements, I needed to make something more immediate, more gestural.

These pieces explore energy - how it moves, how it's contained or released, how vitality returns after withdrawal. Some are chaotic. Some are playful. Some are searching.

The work is still finding its form. That feels appropriate.