My work sits on the threshold between the individual and the collective. When does someone become a "type" of person, shedding their unique qualities to embody a group? Can there be an "other" that still bears their own individuality, a blend of distinctiveness and belonging? To examine these questions of dissolution and emergence from multiple angles, I adopt a multidisciplinary approach.

In my software-based installations, I program unique nondeterministic algorithms to simulate physical interactions between silhouettes that move in a gravity-free environment. Human bodies appear to float on surfaces of fabric or paper, contained within a canvas-like object on the wall. While they fly, fall, and collide, they personify unscripted emotions through an unpredictable chain of actions and reactions. I think of them as emotive ecosystems.

In my figurative acrylic paintings, I employ the anatomical body as a living historical idiom, a carrier of the weight of a collective past. Using a sgrafitto technique, I remove layers of paint to draw out a shoulder or a gaze, line by line. My aim is to reflect the psychological and physiological impact of historical events and the imprints they leave on our individual and shared identities. I edit the heavy texture of the underpainting so that it often remains visible as it traverses the surfacing body. I erase extraneous historical references, including that of the traditional canvas itself, by placing the figure in a background of heavy, shapeless white paint.

In my charcoal-based paintings, the question of a unit of identity is posed in the other direction. I probe the point at which simple marks, lines and smudges coalesce to form the perception of a body. These works came out of the worlds of William Kentridge, Alberto Giacometti, and Kaethe Kollwitz. This series is an exploration of the limits of our visual vocabulary and the potency of suggestion in art, through charcoal and white paint. I am captivated by the balance between the familiar and the alien, and the remarkable range of expressions that can emerge from their interplay.

I work with artist communities in Europe and the US. These collaborations provide both unfamiliar perspectives and common causes. As an artist and a techie, an immigrant and an expat, I aim to reveal the nuances that lie beneath the surface of our quantified lives.