I am a product of my environment, influenced by the passage of time and the inspiration I find in exploring and creating across various series of work. My practice is united by a throughline of aesthetic sensibilities, technical mastery, and material knowledge. For me, art is a means of examining and expressing my perceptions of media, nature, architecture, and social issues.

Each body of work is born from a memory, an experience, a found object, a personal interest, or an observation. My past series—such as Preternatural Fauna (2006), Looking Through Newton’s Telescope (2008), Lunar Series (2009), Forms and Techniques (2010), and my ongoing Monolith Series (2013)—reflect this diversity of inspiration. While each series varies in form and materials, they are unified by my deep material knowledge and technical versatility. I often tailor specific materials and techniques to suit the demands of each project, pulling from the toolbox I’ve cultivated over the years.

Although I occasionally revisit earlier series to add new works, my current focus remains on the Monolith Series, which I began in 2013. In this series, I continue to find inspiration from my formative years immersed in the visual language of science fiction. The architectural landscapes and devices found in these narratives resonate deeply with me. Many of these fictional worlds feature set designs that evoke Brutalist architecture—massive, geometric, and uncompromising in their aesthetic.

Brutalism, despite its polarizing reputation among the public and design experts, endures as a dominant vision of the future in our cultural imagination. My affinity for this aesthetic stem from its stark honesty: its “cold, hard lines” and raw, unadorned forms. Brutalism critiques human vanity by stripping away ornamental beauty, prioritizing functionality and clarity instead. Where classical Rome’s grandeur or neo-Gothic Paris’s ornate elegance celebrates aesthetic excess, Brutalism embraces clean, efficient modernity.

This aesthetic evolved into a celebration of scale, material, and spatial complexity. The monumental concrete forms—bold, unapologetic, and vertical—exude a visual strength and spatial clarity that I find deeply inspiring. Their straightforward materiality and sense of scale are qualities I strive to capture in my work.

While my creations lack Brutalism’s explicit social commentary, they echo its core aesthetic principles: strength, rawness, and material honesty. Recurring themes in my work include:

• Blunt, geometric forms with a monolithic and blocky appearance

• A preference for modular elements and ridged materials such as metal, stone, and glass

• A focus on spatial presence and awareness

Through my artistic practice, I have come to understand that much of my work revolves around the idea of testing boundaries, particularly in exploring the concept of tolerance. Whether I am pushing a material’s physical limits, examining the interplay of form and surrounding lines, or confronting my own tolerance for imperfection (and learning to accept it), my art has become a study in resilience and flexibility.

Ultimately, I see both art and society as defined by a constant play of variables shaped by tolerance.