Portals [2009–24]
Portals explores painting as a perceptual apparatus for confronting experiences that resist complete understanding. Through portraits of individuals in intensive care environments, the project examines the tension between visibility and uncertainty, presence and absence. The fragile unpredictability of watercolor becomes a starting point for reconstructing forms through oil and acrylic, transforming instability into structure. Painting becomes not an illustration of suffering, but an instrument for examining how we assign meaning to conditions beyond our control.