About

Artist Statement

My practice examines how desire is constructed, staged, and naturalized through the language of landscape. Working across photography, sculpture, video, and installation, I build intricate handcrafted dioramas that are photographed and expanded into immersive environments. These fabricated terrains blur distinctions between the organic and the artificial, the tactile and the simulated, positioning landscape not as a site of nature but as a cultural technology—one that shapes how longing, fantasy, and consumption are visualized and experienced.

Influenced by Jean Baudrillard’s theory of the simulacrum, I consider how contemporary life unfolds within systems of representation that increasingly precede and structure experience itself. In an era defined by algorithmic production and synthetic imagery, my work deliberately reverses digital logic. While AI attempts to simulate authenticity, the dioramas employ tactile, analog labor to mimic the polished surfaces of the virtual. This inversion complicates authorship, materiality, and trust, asking how authenticity is perceived when simulation has become embedded within the visual field.

The worlds I construct initially appear seductive and utopian—lush, luminous, hyperreal—yet subtle ruptures begin to emerge: melting forms, unstable foundations, traces of erosion and collapse. These fissures expose the instability beneath images that promise satisfaction without consequence, revealing the fragility concealed within fantasies of abundance and perfection.

Ultimately, my practice inhabits the tension between enchantment and collapse. By constructing landscapes that oscillate between pleasure and decay, seduction and disintegration, I examine how contemporary culture manufactures desire while ensuring that fulfillment remains perpetually out of reach.