The latest body of work I have been exploring focuses on the city as a living narrative. A space filled with commotion, instruction, chaos and saturated patterns. The distorted use of perspective plays up the idea of the city is an active organism; it is coming at us with forceful diligence, navigating the viewer through. Urban spaces are about order and command. In these painting the use of blank signs and colorless traffic lights questions our dependence on the city’s instruction of where and when to go. The presence of the human figure is almost decorative, nothing more than another element in the city’s makeup.

Each work starts off as a charcoal drawing. Paint and collage elements come later to build up a sense of texture in the city: chipping paint off buildings, layered billboards, constructed and deconstructed streets and sidewalks. Despite the use of paint a lot of the initial drawing is preserved as a skeleton structure underneath it. This process of layering different media on top of one another mimics the city’s own nature of persistent renewal. New marks are added on constantly in urban environments, thus changing not only their surface quality but also their function. This body of work embraces the city’s living character and represents it through a dynamic use of viewpoints, texture, color and distorted space.