Place

This body of paintings explores place as a site of memory, sacrifice, and violence. Drawing on biblical narratives, myth, and contemporary reality, the works move between ancient ritual and present catastrophe, asking how landscapes become charged by what has happened within them. Figures appear as witnesses, victims, mourners, and agents—caught in moments of tension, transformation, and unresolved moral weight.

At the center of the series is an ongoing meditation on what societies sanctify, what they demand, and who is asked to bear the cost. Through vivid color, charged symbolism, and scenes that hover between the intimate and the archetypal, these paintings examine sacrifice not as a distant story, but as a recurring human structure—one that continues to shape bodies, histories, and the places we inhabit.

Through this series, I try to build images that hold contradiction: beauty and violence, tenderness and cruelty, myth and present reality. I return to recurring figures - human, animal, and symbolic - to explore sacrifice, memory, and the roles people are made to inhabit within larger social and moral structures.