The portraits I create are not commissions; they are compulsions. They stem from an intuitive fascination with people from my life whose essence connects with me in a unique way. My process bypasses the posed and the performative; I seek out the candid, "stolen" moment, where the subject is revealed, unknowing of my observation. It is in that vulnerability that I find the connection I wish to render.
My work prioritizes "emotional truth" over physiognomic fidelity. Every portrait is unavoidably tinged by the prism of my own subjectivity—often, a melancholy searching for its echo in another. A piece is successful not because of its accuracy, but because it can function as a testament to the initial emotion that brought it into being. The gaze is the epicenter of this dialogue. My subjects often meet the viewer's eye, observing them silently from the canvas. This reversal generates a psychological tension, turning the observer into the observed, and the portrait into an encounter.
The choice to isolate each figure in a void is a foundational statement. This emptiness is not an absence, but a presence: it is the reflection of my own need for solitude and remote contemplation. By divesting the scene of any external narrative, the portrait becomes a pure psychological cartography—a study on solitude, introspection, and the complex geography of the human soul.
