How do opposites occupy the same landscape? Nature is not separate from human presence. It records it. Beneath every surface lies what has been extracted, discarded, transformed and left behind. What remains unseen does not disappear.

Oxymoron draws on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and its tension between the visible and the concealed, between perception and reality, between what is seen and what lies beneath it. The titles point to the coexistence of contradictions: opposing forces occupying the same space.

I combine industrial waste with sand and volcanic earth to construct the skin of the paintings. Through fire, these materials are transformed, suspended between destruction and creation, the geological and the human, the buried and the visible. The surface becomes a record of what lies beneath it.