I paint because I believe that painting can still offer an experience that no other visual medium can replace.
My practice explores presence and the ways in which painting can create an experience that emerges through relationships between time, perception and materiality. I am interested in the moment when an image ceases to be merely a representation and becomes a space in which the viewer can linger.
In today's visual culture, images constantly compete for our attention. My paintings do not seek to participate in this competition. They are built slowly through layers, light and reduced visual relationships. I aim to create works that do not demand an immediate interpretation, but unfold gradually and give the viewer time.
My thinking has been deeply influenced by Gregorian chant, medieval polyphony and the music of Arvo Pärt. I am interested not in representing music, but in the ways its structures—rhythm, pause, repetition and resonance—can become structures within painting. Music offers me a way of thinking about how painting can organise space and time.
Both human figures and reduced, nearly abstract spaces belong to the same investigation. I do not see them as separate subjects, but as different ways of approaching the same question: how can painting make an experience of presence possible?
I think of painting as a slow medium. Its meaning does not emerge in a single glance, but develops over time. For me, a painting is not primarily an image of the world, but a place where the viewer can encounter time, silence and their own act of perception in a different way.