Artist Statement

My practice investigates how perception shapes our experience of belonging. Through layered paintings on acrylic glass, I explore how memory, movement, and light influence the ways we experience and construct belonging. Rather than depicting specific landscapes, my work considers how environments are perceived, remembered, and transformed into emotional and psychological experiences.

Each work begins with hand drawings that are translated into hand-cut stencils. Layers of acrylic paint are applied in reverse behind acrylic glass and combined with scattered gold leaf, creating surfaces that shift between image, object, and reflection. Divided into multiple panels, the compositions exist as individual elements while forming a unified whole. As light changes and the viewer moves, subtle variations in depth, reflection, and material presence emerge, encouraging sustained looking rather than immediate resolution.

Growing up between France and Germany, and later living in the United States, shaped my understanding of belonging as something fluid rather than fixed. Moving between cultures and environments fostered an awareness of how memory and perception continually redefine our sense of belonging. Fragmentation, layering, and repetition have become both the physical language of my work and a reflection of these experiences.

I create paintings that change through the act of looking. Through sustained observation, viewers become aware of their own shifting perception and the ways in which belonging is continually reconstructed through memory, experience, and time. Rather than offering fixed narratives, my work invites an open-ended dialogue between image, perception, and belonging.