"portrait in a gold room" transforms found footage through digital manipulation, creating a compelling exploration of identity and perception. The piece features a portrait against a warm golden background, where the subject's features appear to fracture and multiply, creating overlapping perspectives that simultaneously reveal and conceal.

  
This manipulation of found footage creates a powerful tension between recognition and abstraction. While certain elements remain discernible—the silhouette, dark hair, pale clothing with delicate detailing—the facial features appear in flux, suggesting multiple moments captured within a single frame.

  
Presented as a sublimation print on glossy white aluminum, the reflective quality of the medium adds conceptual depth to the viewing experience. As light shifts and viewers move around the piece, their reflections become incorporated into the work, extending the theme of transformed perception. The rich amber tones of the background provide a warm luminosity that contrasts with the more disruptive elements of the composition.

  
The borderless presentation allows the image to exist without announcing its edges, inviting viewers to engage with the work's exploration of how identity is both revealed and concealed through digital mediation, asking them to slow down and find meaning not in what is immediately apparent, but in what emerges through sustained attention.

portrait in a gold room

"earth angel" explores the boundaries between materiality and ethereality through digital transformation of found imagery. In this piece, a figure emerges from and dissolves into a luminous haze of whites and pale blues, creating an otherworldly presence that seems to exist between states of being.

  
The figure's subtle blue tinting against the overwhelming whiteness suggests both presence and absence, with careful manipulation of light creating a visual effect reminiscent of overexposure or spiritual manifestation. The structural elements of the original image—the delicate ribbed fabric, the subtle contours of form—remain just visible enough to anchor the composition while being transformed into something more ephemeral.

  
Presented as a sublimation print on glossy white aluminum, the reflective quality of the medium enhances the work's luminosity while incorporating the surrounding environment into the viewing experience. As viewers move around the piece, their reflections interact with the image, extending the theme of liminality beyond the picture plane itself. The borderless presentation allows the composition to exist without announcing its edges, inviting viewers to engage with the tension between recognition and abstraction that characterizes the work.

  
This piece exemplifies my interest in creating images that resist immediate consumption, instead requiring time and shifting perspective to fully experience their quiet subversive quality in a digital environment designed for instant comprehension.

earth angel

"bouquet aglow" transforms found floral imagery into a luminous nocturnal composition where deep blues, teals, and emerald greens emerge from darkness. The piece creates tension between recognition and abstraction as familiar flower forms—roses, anemones, and delicate foliage—I digitally manipulate to appear as if illuminated from within by a warm golden light source.

  
The layered composition suggests depth while maintaining a dreamlike quality, with translucent elements and subtle distortions creating visual rhythms throughout the piece. The rich contrast between the dark background and the glowing flowers creates a sense of emergence, as if the blooms are materializing from shadow into light.

  
Presented as a sublimation print on glossy white aluminum, the reflective quality of the medium enhances the work's luminosity while incorporating the surrounding environment into the viewing experience. As light shifts and viewers move around the piece, reflections interact with the image, extending the theme of transformation beyond the picture plane itself. The borderless presentation allows the composition to exist without announcing its edges, inviting sustained attention and engagement with the subtle interplay of color and form.

bouquet aglow

"swimmer" embodies my exploration of transformation and fragmentation through digital manipulation of found footage. In this work, a figure emerges partially submerged in water, with their features deliberately disrupted and reconstructed through overlapping perspectives. The face simultaneously dissolves and materializes, creating a visual metaphor for the liminal space between presence and absence.

The muted color palette of soft grays and subtle earth tones against the silvery water surface creates a contemplative atmosphere. At the same time, the fragmentation technique produces a rhythmic distortion that suggests movement and the passage of time. This piece exemplifies my interest in the tension between what remains visible and what becomes obscured through digital processing.

Presented as a sublimation print on glossy white aluminum, the medium's reflective quality enhances the work's conceptual aspects. As viewers move around the piece, their reflections and the surrounding environment become incorporated into the viewing experience, extending the theme of fluidity and transformation beyond the image itself. The borderless presentation allows the composition to exist without announcing its edges, creating an immersive experience that invites sustained attention and engagement with ambiguity.

swimmer

"contemplation" is a portrait piece that exemplifies my digital transformation process, where I manipulate found imagery into ethereal, abstracted forms that hover between recognition and concealment. The subtle peach and pale blue tones create a luminous quality, while the figure's gaze and contemplative posture invite viewers into a moment of quiet introspection.

  
The piece is presented as a sublimation print on glossy white aluminum, creating a reflective surface that incorporates the viewer and the surrounding environment into the viewing experience. As one moves around the work, shifting reflections and light interact with the image, extending the theme of transformation beyond the picture plane itself. This material presentation adds a conceptual layer about perception and the viewing experience, where boundaries between viewer and artwork blur.

  
The borderless, unframed presentation allows the image to exist without announcing its edges, creating an immersive experience where the transformative qualities within the composition can spill outward, inviting sustained attention and engagement with ambiguity.

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