Statement
Here I articulate how symbolic form, memory, and identity are constructed within my work, offering a structural explanation of the ideas and conceptual framework behind the visual image.
My work is based on emotional cartography — a way of mapping what cannot be measured physically: memory, identity, belonging and inner structure.
Cartography, in my understanding, is not about borders or geography. It is about systems. Just as a map reveals the structure of a territory, my paintings reveal the invisible structure of experience — how emotions, roots, culture and personal history shape who we are.
I work in my own language of Naive Symbolism. Simplicity of form allows clarity of meaning. Black contour creates structure. Pure colour carries emotional charge. Symbols are embedded within plants, animals and organic forms, turning them into carriers of layered meaning.
My practice moves across scale. It begins with the emotional cartography of the human being — mapping family, growth, memory and inner states. From there it expands outward toward communities, territories and nations. Flora and fauna become markers of belonging. Cultural codes and shared symbols become part of a visual system that connects personal and collective memory.
Through this method, I build an expanding symbolic atlas — not of land masses, but of identity. My paintings are not illustrations of reality; they are structured maps of how meaning lives inside people and places.