My paintings explore sustain: a way of keeping perception open without allowing recognition to become its final aim. Sustain does not simply delay the moment at which an image is identified. Instead, it describes a state in which looking continues without settling into a single image, name, or meaning.
I repeatedly build thin, transparent layers through bodily action. Rather than reproducing an identical mark, each new layer changes how earlier traces appear. They may be blurred, deepened, or made almost invisible, yet they are never entirely erased and continue to shape the surface. Accumulation does not move towards a fixed conclusion; instead, traces of different times remain together within the surface.
From a distance, my paintings may appear as near-monochrome fields. As the viewer moves closer, subtle shifts in colour, depth, and brushwork begin to emerge. Rather than presenting an image to be recognised or decoded, the surface creates a condition in which the eye continues to move and perception remains open.
Sustain is therefore not simply the subject of my work, but a method operating through the way each painting is made and experienced.