My artistic practice is rooted in transformation and the dissolution of boundaries between life forms, echoing Surrealism’s fascination with metamorphosis and the unconscious. Water—its fluidity, force, and mutability—guides both my conceptual framework and material process. Like the gestural abstraction of Action Painting, I invite the organic behavior of materials to shape the work, allowing spontaneity and flow to co-create form. My sculptures resist fixed states, instead evolving with a biomorphic fluidity that blurs the lines between plant, animal, and human—between liquid and solid.

This instinct for hybridization has deep ancestral echoes. My grandmother was born in Transylvania, and from a young age I was steeped in the region’s myths, especially the lore surrounding Dracula. The vampire—neither fully alive nor dead, both feared and desired—embodies the liminal spaces that captivate my work. The mythologies passed down to me weren’t just stories, but psychological landscapes where identity, desire, and the unknown coexisted. Embracing and exploring the “shadow” of my unconscious is an important aspect of my art practice.

As a child, I was also enchanted by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid—a tale of transformation, sacrifice, and selfhood that mirrored the hybrid, feminine figures I identified with from Eastern European folklore. The mermaid’s dissolution into sea-foam resonated as a symbol of choosing one’s path at great personal cost, and affirmed my belief in the power of resisting containment. The path of my life as an artist reflects this core belief of following ones inner guide or intuition even if it involves sacrificing aspects of material comforts.

I find kinship with the Symbolists’ inner mythologies and the psychological abstraction of mid-century modernism. My practice bridges figurative and abstract modes, weaving together science, spirituality, and aesthetics in a manner reminiscent of Hilma af Klint’s visionary abstraction. Esoteric philosophies, especially Kundalini yoga, inform my exploration of altered states of consciousness and energetic transformation. I have been practicing Kundalini yoga since 2019 and the symbolism of the serpent as the coiled life energy which when elevated allows one to experience an altered and elevated perspective has started to manifest in my work. Like meditation, art is a practice which opens the door to a transcendent state of awareness and allows me to peer into another realm. The sculptures I create are artifacts of that exploration.

Visually, my work draws from the ornate precision of Ernst Haeckel’s biological illustrations and the dreamlike folklore of my Eastern European roots. My figurative watercolors use layered translucence to evoke spectral presences, while my sculptural works embrace the ornamental exuberance of the Baroque and Art Nouveau—styles historically feminized—reclaiming them as vessels of power and transformation. Across media, hybridity remains my central aesthetic and philosophical inquiry: a space where boundaries dissolve, identities intermingle, and material states shift—unsettling the lines between self and other, myth and biology, flesh and spirit.

 
 

PAINTINGS:

In my paintings, viewers can discern echoes of topographical riverbeds and the undulating surface of bodies of water. Be it the correlation between riverbed width and channel size, the resemblance of leaf veins to trees and their branches, or the resonance between foam patterns and ocean waves, my paintings reflect these structures of nature. My fascination with the underlying structure of natural forms reflects my belief in the guiding intelligence inherent within the universe. As consciousness manifests itself in the human form and we come to see ourselves as inherently and inextricably linked with nature as in Pollock’s famous statement: “I am nature”, our relationship and behavior regarding natural resources can dramatically shift. If we remove the distinction between ourselves and all of nature and begin to perceive ourselves as a direct extension of nature, we can come to perceive the inherent value and subjective experience of all life forms. 

Paintings

 
 

CHARCOALS


Abstract charcoal drawings featuring layers on transparent subtle greys evoke a sense of dynamic movement, resembling creatures in flux or ethereal landscapes crafted solely from the interplay of motion and texture. The fluidity of charcoal allows for organic forms to emerge, quietly inviting the viewer to explore the contrasts between light and dark. Each stroke creates a depth that feels alive, as if the images are breathing and shifting, suggesting an ever-changing environment where the boundaries between the real and the imagined blur. Through these layers, the artwork captures an essence of fluidity and transition, making the viewer feel as though they are witnessing a moment frozen in motion, teeming with energy and potential as an ethereal being.