Artist Statement_Touch as Knowing

Touch, for me, is not a technique but a way of thinking. When skin meets pigment and surface, the boundary between body and image dissolves; what unfolds is not representation but encounter. I paint through contact rather than control—allowing gestures to arise from sensation, not calculation.

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This haptic method begins with the body’s own archive. Every movement carries memory: pressure, hesitation, release, and insistence leave traces that cannot be reproduced by tools at a distance. These tactile marks are not merely evidence of process—they are affirmations of presence. The painting becomes a living record of the body’s negotiation with power, its moments of resistance and surrender.

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In this sense, my work does not depict the body; it is the body—thinking, feeling, and asserting its right to exist on its own terms. Through touch, I seek to transform the act of painting into a practice of self-affirmation: a space where the body encounters itself and declares that encounter as real.