Artist Statement

I have always enjoyed the look of a painting or an image of a dreamscape as a form of escapism, really. During my formative years, I would spend much of my time fantasizing about other worlds and time portals as a way to grow my curiosity away from my very own reality. Later on, I got into digital photography and started to travel and was introduced to various editing software that allowed me to impose a dreamlike look onto my images. My process starts with images rooted in the physical world — a sunset, a pier, architecture highlighted in a major city — and then I transform them into an image where the familiar tilts oh so slightly into the surreal.

Through shifts in color, texture, and scale, I work to dissolve the edges of ordinary scenes, letting them slip into a space where time feels uncertain and gravity is optional. These altered landscapes are not fantasy for its own sake; they are invitations to see reality as fluid, to imagine the world as more elastic and strange than we usually allow.

Each photograph holds onto just enough realism to feel believable, while carrying the quiet dissonance of a dream you can’t fully explain. In that tension between the concrete and the impossible, I hope viewers find a sense of wonder — the kind that lingers, making the everyday seem just a little more unreal.