The human body contains unending means in which it can express and manifest the emotions and turmoil inside. I view the body not as a shell or a container for one’s fears and desires, but as having and intrinsic connection to them. Can our organs, bones and muscles know our thoughts and beliefs? Do you feel anger in your body the way I feel anger in mine? Does falling in love feel the same to you as it does for me? Where in your body, what organ, do you feel longing? 

Themes of obsession and collectivism are reflected in the form of my work: I collect pictures, taken by myself or anyone else, of human body parts and those become the basis of a painting. Can I transmit the essence of this hand or ear into a painting? And from there, it is transformed, deformed, exaggerated, irrevocably changed and made new. Arms and legs are detached and reattached in imaginative and interesting ways, and the compositions of the final art pieces become crowded and chaotic with no discernible focal point. The collage of disembodied body parts is a play between the inside of a painting that can be concentrated and busy much the inside of a human body, and the seemingly empty void surrounding it.