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My work does not resolve the conflict between order and chaos. It inhabits it. I build paintings in layers, returning to each work across days and weeks, adding and obscuring, until the surface holds the history of its own making. A figure emerges from abstraction. A geometric field fractures into something raw. The process is as much about what is buried as what is revealed. A red line recurs across many of my works — a thread, a wound, a division, a signal. It means something different in each painting, but it is always intentional: the one element that refuses to disappear under the accumulation. My subjects are mostly human: faces, bodies, myths, silhouettes. But I am less interested in representation than in psychological weight. The figures in my paintings carry something unresolved. They are not portraits of people so much as portraits of states — grief, longing, defiance, stillness before the storm. Before I was an artist, I was an engineer and then a lawyer. Those disciplines shaped how I see things — structurally, adversarially, with attention to what is hidden beneath the surface. Music has been a parallel practice throughout, and it informs the rhythm of composition: the pacing of a painting, the tension before resolution, the moment that lands. I do not think these lives are separate. They converge in the work. 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