My work is driven by a desire to transcend the everyday—to move beyond the self and toward something more interconnected and essential. Influenced by the aesthetics of psychedelia, rave culture, and the classical structure of the sand mandala, I see these visual and cultural systems as attempts to reach pure awareness, to dissolve the boundaries of the ego. Though I consider myself a rationalist-at-heart, I approach painting as a space for surrendering control. I begin directly on canvas without sketches, drawing continuously in an unplanned direction until a composition gradually takes form. Once I reach an impasse, I initiate a process of creative destruction—using sandpaper, scrapers, and high-pressure water to strip away layers and reveal what lies beneath. In this ritualistic cycle of construction and erasure, I allow chance to intervene. Most of my works are created with handmade crayons, produced from beeswax candle leftovers, collected from monasteries. While I’m not religious, I see this material as carrying a history of belief—something I recycle into a new kind of spiritual expression. My paintings are often accompanied by ephemeral installations of handmade wallpaper. This isn’t a backdrop, but an extension of the canvas—part of the same material whole. I’m interested in the dissolution of inside and outside, artwork and environment, self and other. The result is a vibrant biomorphic mass—sometimes suggestive of botanical or microscopic forms, sometimes of a hallucinatory vision. Like a mandala, each piece is a layered journey from outside to in. Rather than represent transcendence, my work attempts to enact it—through process, texture, and rhythm.