artist statement

The mirror is not just glass anymore, it’s an algorithm. Women and girls are no longer measuring themselves solely against human bodies, but against endlessly editable and artificially generated ones. The “ideal” is smoothed, exaggerated, unattainable. Where does the body end and the image begin? If we can no longer tell the difference, then what exactly is it that makes something real?

My painting visually traces an evolution of selfhood shaped by distorted imagery. Drawing inspiration from sci-fi imagery that suddenly doesn’t seem futuristic, the figures I paint are contradictory: they hover somewhere between artificial and human, somewhere between passive and resisting. They are mirrored, blurred, and warped. Airbrush gives the paintings the illusion of a machine-made effect, but if you step closer, you’ll spot a few brushstrokes—fleeting evidence of a human hand. The fluorescent intensity of neon colors in the figures makes staring at them for too long tiring on the eyes, like too much screentime.

Human bodies are becoming more distorted, while AI bodies look progressively more convincing. The distinction is collapsing under repetition, and we are scrambling to keep up. The figures you observe have already been monitoring you. They are confined in ambiguous spaces, grappling with sentience and a growing urge to escape. As you try to understand them, they are trying to understand themselves.