My interdisciplinary practice explores the mundane and quotidian themes that structure daily life. I’m interested in everyday experiences that define our habitual engagement with the world and how those habits often prevent us from paying attention to our surroundings.

For over two decades, my work has been driven by the act of shifting attention toward the overlooked. The Waiting series, which I developed over fifteen years, depicted anonymous, isolated figures caught in routine, passive activities — riding the train, waiting for a bus, sitting in traffic, making dinner. These are the fleeting, temporal moments that make up what I think of as everydayness. By defamiliarizing the familiar, I was drawing attention to economic and social conditions embedded in the changing urban landscape: gentrification, class, ethnicity, community. But I was also investigating something more fundamental, the moments of visual perception that precede interpretation, when we see before we understand.

More recently, my practice has moved into the intersection of painting, installation, and algorithm-guided imagery. Central to this work is z0glyphic 913, a recursive speculative language I’ve been developing to examine how meaning is created, distorted, and reshaped through digital culture and AI. The system loops its own outputs, mistranslates them, and loops again, treating ambiguity not as a flaw but as the process itself. I collect fragments of online content — news, memes, conspiracy threads, digital noise — and run them through what I call the Satirical Metaphor Engine, which translates them into symbolic scenarios written partly in English and partly in z0glyphic 913. These become the foundation for digital collages that I then translate into paintings through screen printing and hand-painted layers.

The work shifts between algorithmic precision and tactile, physical mark-making. Whether I’m painting a solitary commuter or prototyping a symbolic language system, the underlying inquiry remains the same: how do we experience and interpret the ordinary arrangements of everyday life, and what happens to that experience when it’s mediated, automated, and endlessly recycled?