Artist statement

The self is not an autonomous will acting from outside the world. It is a particular configuration of responsiveness, shaped by genetic inheritance, bodily history, accumulated experience, and the specific coordinates of time and space in which a life unfolds. These conditions are unchosen and unrepeatable. Individuality is therefore real and guaranteed, arising from this conditioning rather than standing in opposition to it. Uniqueness does not come from self creation, but from a convergence of circumstances that will never occur again in the same way.

The drawing practice operates within this understanding. Each mark carries the trace of a specific body without that body having fully determined what appears. The work is both authored and received. It is yours because no one else shares your exact calibration, and it is never entirely yours because the marks emerge through response to conditions rather than through intention alone.

Convincing myself of this matters more than persuading others. The myth of autonomous selfhood is held in the body as much as in thought, and argument by itself cannot undo it. The method must therefore be obsessive, sustained, repetitive, and attentive. This is not a matter of discipline, but of necessity. The investigation cannot be brought to a conclusion. It has to be lived through.y