My practice has spent three decades returning to one central question: what does it mean to be present, to be seen, and to disappear?

 

It began with my early video installation, 100 filmed portraits in which people were left alone with the camera. Over time, the performance of being watched fell away, revealing that quiet threshold where someone stops presenting and turns inward.

 

Through short films and documentaries, I've followed lives shaped by trauma, addiction, psychosis, and identity, drawn to experiences that sit at the edges of visibility. Again and again, I return to the distance between inner life and outward recognition.

 

In my current paintings, that exploration takes the form of partially erased or whitewashed figures, bodies that remain yet lose their defining features. This speaks to displacement, conflict, and the ways individuals become faceless within mass narratives of suffering. The partially erased figure asks what remains, who is remembered, who is witnessed, and who disappears.

 

Across video, film, and painting, my work is ultimately concerned with the fragile act of witnessing, our need to be seen, our capacity to look away, and what it means to remain present in the face of another human life.