“I certainly need a hug right now but a hug never lasts as long as I need it to. Take me back to the womb, shield me from all the chaos and nightmares!”

“There can be great relief in imagining oneself as an object, not as a form of dehumanization, but as a strategy of sidestepping the essentializing pressures that come with being a subject.”

“A work feels resolved when the materials settle into a kind of internal logic. At that point nothing more needs to be added or removed, and the structure feels both inevitable and improbable at the same time.”

“Uncertainty is what allows the work to move; without it, a painting can only arrive where you already expected it to.”

“The action of walking is removed from its usual function. It is left suspended in an absurd repetition without progression.”

“These performative acts allow the body to blend into the object and the object into the body, dissolving boundaries and merging into unfamiliar territories.”

“My images, while convincing, threaten to collapse the whole structure.”

“The image remains a state and shows a moment full of possibilities that cannot be completely resolved.”

“I’ve always been intrigued by things that are soothing and disquieting at the same time.”

“The act of scrolling suggests forward movement while, in fact, leading nowhere.”

“Sound penetrates directly beyond (rational) interpretation; it is experiential, self-narrating, and largely self-explanatory.”

“How a sculpture is made becomes an important lens for examining why it was made.”