Artist Statement

The work examines the psychological and cultural systems that shape human behavior — the patterns repeated, the narratives normalized, and the ways language, belief, and memory construct identity. Across painting, sculpture, writing, and mixed media, the practice approaches the self not as autobiography but as a site of observation through which broader social and psychological structures can be examined.

Rather than centering a singular authorial voice, the work positions [ i ] as a shared perceptual role the viewer can occupy. From this position, individual experience can be read alongside collective behavior, revealing how personal belief systems mirror cultural narratives and how power, misinformation, trauma, and repetition shape perception over time. The work does not seek resolution but traces these forces as they loop between the internal and the external.

Drawing from documentary modes of seeing while operating within a conceptual art framework, the practice emphasizes close observation, pattern recognition, and symbolic language. Images, objects, and texts operate as evidence rather than confession, inviting sustained attention to how meaning is formed, internalized, and reproduced.

At its core, the work investigates how identity is constructed, individually and collectively, and how unseen psychological and cultural forces operate beneath what is spoken, believed, and normalized. Rather than offering conclusions, the work creates space for examining how perception is shaped, how narratives persist, and how the self exists as both singular and shared.