Artist Statement
I work with letters before they become words.
I work with letters before they become words.
I do not paint with brushes. I do not draw outlines.
I work with letters.
"First come the letters. Then the image happens."
For me, the letter is not a symbol meant to form words or convey a verbal sentence. When language is expected to communicate, we read it quickly and discard its physical body.
I do the opposite. I strip the letter of its phonetic task and return it to pure matter — a generative unit of form.
Each character is applied by hand, one by one.
It has physical weight, sharp edges, relief, and shadow. It is glued, overlaid, and anchored to rigid aluminum panels.
As thousands of characters accumulate, an unexpected transformation occurs: repetition becomes structure, density becomes tension, and relation generates form.
Faces, gazes, and anatomies surface from this typographic density — not because they were outlined, but because the structure allows them to emerge.
"The figure does not simply receive the letters. It happens through them."
I do not write images. I build the conditions from which they can emerge.
This is the core of Genomism: treating the letter as visual DNA.
From a distance, the viewer perceives a unified human presence. Up close, the image breaks apart into an intricate landscape of individual letters.
My work asks for your presence. It demands time, proximity, and an active gaze.