Artist statement

 

I travel through cities, taking photographs that I later use to develop my work. I am an urban person, and I like to immerse myself in the crowd—a crowd that attracts me, paralyzes me, moves me, surprises me, drags me, and shakes me...

​

My paintings revolve around the 'act of looking'; around how we observe those around us and how that filter selects, almost unconsciously, which people we are going to ignore. Most of the time, it is not our eyes that look, but our mind: we perceive the world as we are.

​

For this reason, I propose to unlearn in order to see again, educating our gaze toward others and toward the white, unpainted areas. That is where I want the viewer to pause: not in the obvious, not on the easy path, but in the invisible—in that which remains outside of their gaze.

​