CLOSER LOOKING

My work explores the tension between recognition and ambiguity. Through close observation, ordinary surfaces, reflections, flowers, leaves, and shifting light become unfamiliar, inviting a slower way of seeing. I am drawn to moments where subjects move beyond their expected identities and reveal texture, movement, fragility, and quiet beauty.

By isolating details and changing perspective, familiar forms become uncertain, existing somewhere between observation and interpretation. Some images remain recognizable while others dissolve into color, pattern, and abstraction, reflecting how perception itself shifts depending on distance, attention, and time.

I am interested in the space between seeing and understanding, where close looking transforms the ordinary into something unexpected. These works invite viewers to pause, reconsider what they think they recognize, and find meaning in details that might otherwise go unnoticed.