Artist statement specifically regarding my recent works

My practice interrogates the uneasy relationship between outward identity and internal reality, using the flamingo as a recurring symbol of contradiction, performance, and emotional distortion. Often seen as elegant, vibrant, and socially cohesive, the flamingo in my work becomes something fragile, rotting, or uncanny—an emblem of psychological tension beneath curated appearances.

Across painting, printmaking, and spray-based interventions, I explore how aesthetic conventions like cuteness, symmetry, and the colour pink can be subverted to express dissociation, grief, and the silent failure of emotional legibility. In my work, pink becomes less about prettiness and more about pressure—the pressure to appear soft, palatable, or whole. The figures I render are often warped, skeletal, or incomplete. They strain toward beauty but fall short, enacting a quiet drama of emotional collapse and compromised identity.

There is a repetitive impulse within my practice—through lino printing and echoing motifs—that mirrors cycles of self-correction, mimicry, and emotional rehearsal. My series often involve variations of the same form altered over time, speaking to the fragility of self-perception and the ongoing labour of 'passing' as fine, present, or desirable. Even in moments of visual minimalism, such as single-line spray drawings, the work carries the weight of what’s unspoken: loss, masking, and the haunting echo of the real self underneath.

While I draw on pop aesthetics and iconographic clarity, my interest lies in what disturbs that surface. By distorting familiar forms, embracing visual decay, and blurring the line between the beautiful and the broken, my work invites viewers to question how much of what we show—of ourselves and each other—is shaped by performance rather than truth.