Selected work
February 22, 2009
Theme II: Presences – 2007
During a visit to a friend in Addis Ababa in 2000, I felt a mix of familiarity and strangeness. While the city had elements that resonated with my Western customs, it was also entirely different…
March 3, 2024
Theme I: Pearl Divers
In 2006, I arrived in Abu Dhabi, feeling excited yet nervous about continuing my expat journey in this coastal Arabic town. As I stepped outside, I was greeted by the scent of hot tarmac, the…
June 6, 2025
Theme V: Second Skin
Second Skin explores what happens when analog faces are reimagined by generative AI. Starting from ink and paint, each portrait is then translated by a model that mutates the original into…
February 19, 2021
2021 New Images / Altered Paintings
“…be self-taught and reinvent your life because you must;” – Charles Bukowski De-construction The use of a de-constructive process makes the technique almost like…
February 19, 2023
Theme IV: The Couple
A recurring theme in several of my paintings from 2003 was the concept of a couple—two individuals in some form of relationship. I found myself questioning how to depict such a relationship on…
April 6, 2005
2003-2005 Drawings / Paintings
I arrived on a bright June morning in the ‘white’ city of Lisboa with only a few bags, an iMac, and some money in my savings account. If I was a millennial, Richard Florida would have…
“I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way.”
Tristan Tzara in the Dada Manifesto 1918