Territories

When we think of landscape, we imagine scenery, horizon, and place. This body of work begins there but quickly shifts toward the idea of territory, not as fixed geography but as something unstable, contested, and deeply personal. Built from paint, paper, charcoal, and graphite, these collages abandon the human figure in favor of layered surfaces where boundaries are drawn, erased, and reimagined. Rather than depicting landscape, they explore memory, time, and transformation, functioning as studies for my new large-scale paintings. The works resist containment, suggesting terrains that are at once external and internal, where the artist's acts of cutting, layering, erasing, and rebuilding leave behind a record of presence within a newly opened abstract territory.