Often with art I feel stretched, challenged, and defamiliarized.
Art’s abstract language is the bridge that spans the gulf – huge concept like solitude can be condensed into pictures in life for us to reckon, and small things like a drop of rain can be held up to mirror the emotion with all its variety–offering new viewpoints that create a synergy of change in attitudes, perceptions, and thoughts.
I am often inspired by books and movies, and explores new perspectives through my own creations. Defamiliarization, an artistic technique that presents common things in unfamiliar or strange ways and evokes a new perspective, inspired me to apply abstraction and magical-realism to the natural world and distort it to create whimsical scenes. I am drawn to how the extension of self-awareness can merge into the surrounding environment and create otherworldly beauty that challenges perspectives of reality. The goal is to convey emotion and psychological states through the color palette and arrangement of background, of which the anatomy of the figures become ornamentation, and the ornamentation becomes anatomy.
