Artist Statement

In my practice, I work across drawing, painting and multiple mediums to create visual works that explore the interface between physical and virtual space through a speculative lens. I shift between lived landscapes and constructed sites, and their virtual counterparts-topographies and imagined spatial systems.

I investigate the relationship between locational organization and mark-making through a combination of handmade and digitally manipulated forms, drawing from a symbolic lexicon of cosmograms and hidden networks. Referencing traditions such as Caribbean cosmograms—impermanent, mandala-like drawings that are used in spiritual invocations—my work considers how marks map space, encode meaning, and register both presence and disappearance.

Sepia ink, graphite, marbled paint and transferred textures are but a few of the materials that I accumulate on the surface. At the core of this inquiry is a framework for examining the instability of orientation, belonging, and territory. I often make use of the language of rational geometric diagrams that are upended with improvisational gestures producing layers that are contentious to the rigid structures. These inscriptions of space, broken grids, notations, directional cues, and speculative topographies operate as provisional maps that resist fixed interpretation.