The Flux
Mapping the Hidden Realities of Existence
Reality is flux—an unfolding, shifting field where nothing is truly fixed, only perceived. At the edge of perception, at the intersection of quantum mechanics and personal mythology, my work maps the liminal, the emergent, and the unseen. The universe is an interplay of chaos and structure, expansion and collapse, possibility and observation—so too are my paintings, which emerge through an intuitive yet highly constrained process.
Like the quantum wave function, my work exists in a state of superposition—both one thing and another, collapsing into form only through interaction. Layers of collage and paint act as strata of meaning, revealing hidden narratives and archetypal figures that flicker between dimensions of the subconscious and the cosmic. The micro mirrors the macro, the deeply personal reflects the universal, and perception itself is an act of creation.
Between the Cosmic and the Psychological
Particles exist in a liminal state until measured, much like memory, trauma, and identity. For over two decades as a social worker, I witnessed suffering until it became my own—absorbed like dark matter, invisible but omnipresent. Vicarious trauma distorts time, fractures identity, embeds itself in the unconscious. Like the shifting fabric of the universe, its imprint is neither linear nor fixed, but entangled across experience.
My paintings give structure to the intangible—to echoes of past selves, to the weight of memory, to the energy of what cannot be held. They are not literal depictions of trauma, but rather the remnants of its impact—inscriptions of transformation, maps of reconfiguration. These forms are both spontaneous and inevitable, arising from an unseen order within chaos, like galaxies coalescing from dust.
Jung, Individuation, and the Trickster Self
Jung spoke of individuation as the process of integrating fragmented aspects of the self into wholeness. But true wholeness is paradox—it is flux, contradiction, shapeshifting. The universe itself resists absolute symmetry, finding balance in disorder, harmony in entropy.
I inhabit the Trickster archetype in my practice, a guide through liminality, a subverter of rigid meaning. Tricksters disrupt, deconstruct, dissolve fixed narratives, moving between worlds—just as my work does. My paintings refuse a single identity, flickering between realities, resisting conclusion. They are both the observer and the observed, the question and the answer.
Like the Trickster of myth and the quantum field itself, my work invites uncertainty. Meaning is never static—it bends, warps, reforms. These pieces are not objects, but events, unfolding differently for each viewer, each moment, each shift in perception.
A Personal Mythology of the Hidden Universe
Over time, my paintings have evolved into a living mythology—an encrypted language of form and meaning that spans both the unknowable vastness of the cosmos and the deeply intimate terrain of selfhood.
Figures emerge that are neither fully human nor entirely abstract; they are liminal beings, shape-shifters at the threshold of knowing. They embody the tension between memory and myth, chaos and order, perception and illusion. Like celestial bodies pulled by unseen forces, or wave functions collapsing into form, they are suspended between states of being.
They are not fixed entities, but maps of shifting realities—fragments of the subconscious, the echoes of transformation, the residue of unseen forces. They exist as both artifact and prophecy, waiting to be deciphered.
Process: Controlled Chaos and Emergent Form
I do not begin with a fixed image—only the intent to uncover what is already present. My process is an excavation, a dialogue with the unseen, a negotiation between randomness and intent. Forms emerge unexpectedly, dictated by an internal logic that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
This mirrors the quantum field, where energy fluctuates at the smallest scales, shaped by interaction and probability. It also mirrors the way memory and trauma inscribe themselves—silently, invisibly, shaping perception and identity in ways we may never fully understand.
Each painting is an act of discovery, revealing hidden patterns, encoded histories, and subconscious architectures. They are not passive objects but dynamic systems—portals into an ever-expanding mythology of existence.
The Flux is the Search
This work is not about finding answers—it is about the act of questioning itself. Like the quantum field, meaning is altered by observation, never singular, never fixed. Each piece exists in flux, shifting with perspective, unfolding in new ways with each encounter.
This is not just abstraction. This is not just expression.
This is the act of searching.
This is a way to navigate the unseen.