“I'm not what appear to be“
Acrylic on canvas, 92x62x5 with the frame
2025
“The Escape Key”
acrylic on canvas, 202 x 152 x 5 with frame
2025
We turned into robot, while robots learned to feel. Ai
acrylic on camvas
102 x 122
“known unknown”
Acrylic on canvas, 2024
150 x 150 cm
They all look the same.
They’re all shielded.
They all obey.
Or almost all.
A system that protects the body and erases the face.
Until someone dares to replace a face with color.
Until someone sees differently.
“Packaged Spirit”
Installation
2025
A Buddha figure wears a bubble-wrap mask — part balaclava, part commodity.
Not just wrapped by the market — but actively participating in it.
From self-coaching to life-hacking, even the path to enlightenment is now branded, packaged, sold.
A reflection on the commodification of the spirit in an age of spiritual consumerism.
Escape
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 150 cm
2024
It began with a story —
a poultry farm where chickens live confined,
fed through tubes, motionless, medicated.
I was disturbed.
Then I recognized the pattern.
We too live in systems of control.
We move less, eat without choice,
connect through screens instead of touch.
Escape imagines a shared flight —
human and animal breaking out together.
Not just from cages,
but
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