Gustave Doré Gustave Doré resonates with me because of his ability to merge technical mastery with emotional gravity. His work isn’t just illustrative—it’s immersive. Doré understood how light, shadow, and scale could be used to evoke awe, dread, wonder, and reverence all at once. His compositions feel vast and atmospheric, often placing the viewer inside […]
A Better Perspective. With my ink-on-film abstracts, I’ve always felt it was a challenge for viewers to fully interpret the pieces as a whole. So I began photographing them with my smartphone, hoping to reveal new layers within the work. To my disappointment, digital zoom proved worse than even the heavy compression you see on […]
The Artistic Process The tension between control and chaos is what drives it for me. This medium dries so fast that every stroke and shape happens almost instantly. It forces me to be direct—to really think about placement, form, and contrast before I place the mark. When I’m painting, it feels like a rush with […]
