How do opposites coexist within 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 we choose not to see does not disappear.

Oxymoron draws from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the tension between appearance and reality, between what is seen and what remains hidden. The title refers to the coexistence of opposites: two contradictions occupying the same space and creating a new meaning.

I combine industrial waste with sand and volcanic earth to construct the skin of the paintings. Fire breaks down and transforms the material, moving it between destruction and creation, the geological and the human, the buried and the visible. Matter is not erased. It’s transformed.