Artist Statement – Layered Traces

As a painter, I investigate how images emerge from traces, remnants and shifts. I do not work toward a fixed end result, but toward a process in which each layer provokes a new decision. For me, the canvas is an active space: a place where time, action and correction remain visible, even when they are painted over.

In my recent work, I deliberately seek the tension between control and resistance. By building up layers, breaking them open or partially removing them, a field of traces emerges that refuses to be fixed. What disappears remains present as an underlying structure and continues to guide the composition. Geometric patterns, stamps and spheres function as markers within this investigation; they reveal rhythms and hidden connections.

My paintings are not illustrations but tracings of a process. They show how each intervention leaves a trace that merges with earlier layers. I invite the viewer to follow this stratification and to establish their own connections. Meaning is not predetermined — it arises through looking, through reading what is visible and what continues to move beneath the surface.