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Instruments of Vision

2026 -





Instruments of Vision takes everyday objects as its medium — eyeglasses, bars, and other familiar things. Extracted from their original positions and relocated into new critical fields, these objects lose their usual function. In that displacement, they reveal what they were always doing: organizing who sees what, naturalizing a particular order into something that feels inevitable.









































































Ring and Abyss

2026 -  



Ring and Abyss takes the structural grammar of the picture frame as its subject. Borders are displaced, distorted, and fused; lines thin until they dissolve; boundaries lose stability; space recedes inward without end. The series does not ask what is inside the frame. It asks what the frame reveals in the moment of its own destabilization ,the mechanism that has always organized looking, never itself seen, appearing for the first time as the structure begins to give way.







           














                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Field and Frame
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2025 - 2026



Taking the "frame" as a structural mechanism, this series constructs multiple shifting systems of framing through displacement, misalignment, and proportional imbalance,examining how boundaries produce existence, and how the act of looking simultaneously generates and dissolves the subject














                                                                

























A Circle or, Something Else

2023 - 2025


A circle can be hidden, veiled behind a curtain, suspended in the sky, or something sacred we don't quite have words for.  Paint this moment before it gets named , when it is concealed, whole, and complete in itself, with no need to explain what it is




























A worldwide boom in fitness and bodybuilding has quietly shaped our sensory responses to the masculine body. This series asks: when facial features and identity are removed, what remains of our aesthetic preference — and what does that reveal?












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