My paintings focus on capturing striking yet ordinary moments of everyday life. I take inspiration from 19th-century flâneurs and their urban observations, blending this perspective with contemporary spaces and details. Elements like shopping malls, plastic slippers, or paper coffee cups may appear in my work as symbols of today’s urban experience.

 

The sense of depth in my paintings is not created solely through light, shadow, or color. By depicting moments from other people’s everyday lives through my own eye and hand, I establish an conceptual relationship that connects the lives of my subjects, my act of painting, and the viewer’s experience of the work.

 

Visually, I adopt a painterly approach that favors open form and expressive brushwork. I often work with thick, gestural strokes, allowing layers to appear with different mediums. While the scenes I depict may seem accidental or fleeting at first glance, they are shaped by close observation and a deliberate pictorial interpretation.

 

This way of working reflects not only my immediate surroundings, but also my interest in the cultural, sociological, and visual languages of the geography I inhabit. I aim to expand this visual vocabulary by observing different cities and cultures, creating new visual resonances within my painting.