FOSSILS FROM ELSEWHERE

2024-2025

My paintings are portals into speculative ecologies where flora and fauna act as protagonists, generating their own alien mythologies beyond human authority.

Shifting between molecular, biological, and celestial scales, these images emerge from a sustained practice of active imagination, where muscle memory and intuition allow the unconscious to surface.

In these alternate realms, characters, interactions, and contexts arise like fossils from a parallel timeline- free from anthropocentric narratives that frame nature as backdrop or resource, and instead cast it as a generative ground where all things merge, mutate, and begin again.

This marks a shift from my decade-long career as a documentary photographer, during which I explored psychogeographies and recurring human patterns. That work revealed the limits of classification and recognition, leading me to painting as a necessary departure.

Painting became a process of unlearning, a move from observation to imagination. These conjured subjects blur the distinctions between species, bodies, and systems, resisting finality and inviting continuous transformation.