About

Once, while sketching flamenco dancers with a simple marker, I realized that there is no medium more alive and forceful than a line. From the rock paintings of Altamira to the works of Rembrandt and the canvases of Basquiat, we see again and again that artists turn to the line as the fundamental instrument of image-making. A line gives birth to form, and at the same time it has the power to fracture and dissolve it. In my practice, I create portraits by experimenting with marker lines, attempting to tame the chaos they generate while allowing their raw energy to remain visible.

I am most drawn to portraying people. Through these portraits, I explore the inner world of my characters—their relationship to life and to the space surrounding them. These figures are usually fictional, yet they carry recognizable emotional states. I study facial expressions closely: the width of cheekbones, the shape of the eyes, and the subtle emotions that leave their traces on a face over time. I am interested in what distinguishes one person from another, and whether an inner, unstoppable force can emerge through the simplest means—direct, impulsive strokes of a marker.