A Practice of Duality
My work exists in the space between opposing forces.
Not as an attempt to resolve them, but to allow their coexistence.
Contrast is not treated as conflict, but as a condition of being alive: structure and surrender, order and intuition, precision and fluidity. The paintings are built as conversations between these elements, each asserting itself without overpowering the other.
Rather than simplifying complexity, I seek to hold it. The work asks what becomes possible when tension is not eliminated, but integrated.
material and surface
Surface is not incidental in my practice.
It is evidence.
Through layering, revision, and restraint, each painting records a process of decision-making. Smooth passages exist beside abrasion. Density is countered by openness. Quiet areas are allowed to remain quiet.
The work carries its history visibly, without becoming expressive for its own sake. Each mark operates within a compositional logic.
The viewer experience
Each painting functions as a site of return.
The work does not demand urgency. It asks for presence. With sustained looking, relationships within the composition reveal themselves slowly, allowing the viewer to inhabit the space rather than consume it.
In a world increasingly defined by polarization and acceleration, the paintings offer an experience of steadiness. Not escape, but clarity.
Presence, after all, is a form of luxury.
Art as applied philosophy
The same principles that structure my studio practice, holding complexity, balancing opposing forces, cultivating presence, also inform my work beyond the canvas.
Through select talks and immersive experiences, I translate these ideas into frameworks for leadership, culture, and decision-making in complex environments.
These frameworks are designed to help leaders navigate ambiguity, integrate opposing perspectives, and sustain clarity under pressure.