Artist Statement

My practice takes place entirely during scuba dives. Water is not my subject but my symbol and tool - the condition that generates each work. Below the surface, the pressure of everyday life disappears, and what remains is the space to observe, to search, and to catch what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the decisive moment.

One question runs through everything I make: how does life begin, how does it transform, and how does it survive? The work explores emergence, transformation, and survival at the boundary between the built world and the natural one. Each project approaches a different face of that question. The visual languages differ because each concept demands its own form, but the investigation is always the same.

Three ongoing series each use distinct physical processes as their generative method: long-exposure choreography with dancers submerged in the sea, controlled compression and release of collected marine debris, and extreme macro studies of living coral.

Chronicles of an Emerging Diversity asks what happens when human waste meets an ecosystem. Blood asks what war, suffering, and passion look like when stripped of context. The Shape of Cosmos places human-made objects into the ocean to confront the divide between what we create and what nature creates. The coral studies examine living surfaces where biological competition and organic architecture converge - five years of looking at how nature builds. The Secret Code of Nature and True Magic reach toward what cannot be seen - bioluminescence, the moment of rebirth, the cycle where light, water, air, and particles converge beneath the surface.

No composites, no digital painting. For each body of work, I develop a dedicated technique, and refining it can take over a year. The ocean provides both subject and condition.

The work takes on a different presence in print, especially at large scale - up to two meters. Each project gets its own paper and presentation, produced in museum-quality format for long-term color preservation.