Artist Manifesto

We move through a culture that often leaves little room for our inner lives to breathe. We learn to perform roles, to value efficiency and output over emotion and presence. Somewhere along the way, feeling became something to manage, rather than something to honour.

We grow distant from our own depths. From the quiet pulse of what moves us, frightens us, and makes us tender.

When we lose touch with ourselves, how can we meet another fully? How does this shape the way we relate to those around us? With the people we love, the ones who share our days, and those who share this world with us, are we being considerate, truly seeing, listening, connecting?

These questions stay with me. They are the ground from which my work grows.

Through my portrait practice, I seek to create a pause. A space where subjectivity, tenderness, and truth can surface. A place where we remember what it means to see and be seen, not as roles or performances, but as whole human beings. A space where we are not afraid of big questions.

Each session is an act of attention, a quiet gesture of care. A reminder that presence itself can be resistance. That love, imagination, and empathy are political acts.

My work is an invitation:

to return to ourselves,

to one another,

and to the beauty - imperfect, mysterious, and luminous - of being alive.