I make paintings and drawings that explore the recursive loop of looking — watching, being watched, and watching ourselves watching. This cycle, intensified by surveillance culture and screen-based life, creates a sense of unease and visual instability. There is a frustration in being caught inside this loop — a never-ending negotiation between observer and observed, focus and distraction.

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Using photographic fragments, images are layered, interrupted, or obscured. The imagery I use — binoculars, faux wood grain  and legs running up steps — point to the mechanisms of looking and the tension between visibility, concealment and entrapment.  Saturated color heightens this disruption: both seductive and jarring, it mimics the intensity of digital light and the emotional charge of constant alertness.

These paintings explore the trade-offs made for the convenience and connectedness of modern life. My work enacts this feedback loop, revealing the ubiquity and universality of being both observer and observed in our contemporary reality.