Artist Statement

I draw people from a future that does not yet exist.

My work imagines the identities and tribes of a future humanity shaped by the tension between technological progress and a return to ancestral ways of understanding the world. Transhumanism and emerging technologies intersect with mythology, folklore, magic, paganism, and mysticism, allowing the past and an imagined future to occupy the same space.

The characters in my drawings inhabit this imagined world, where humanity has reorganized into tribes and developed a renewed relationship with nature. Masks function as protection, but also as markers of identity, social structure, and spiritual role. Clothing, objects, symbols, and rituals draw from ancient traditions while being transformed into artifacts of this new reality. My drawing technique relies on precision and detail to give these fictional characters and imagined worlds a tangible presence.

In this world, technological advancement has not displaced older forms of knowledge and belief. Mythos and logos coexist, and the boundaries between science, technology, and what we might understand as magic begin to dissolve.

This relationship between the ancestral and the technological is also embedded in the way I make the work. I use digital collages and diffusion models during the research and development process, combining contemporary image-making technologies with the physical process of drawing by hand. The final works are created entirely with graphite or colored pencil on paper. The process mirrors the conceptual framework of the work: the traditional and the technological coexist within the same image.

Through this imagined mythology, I explore questions of identity, spirituality, technology, and humanity's relationship with nature. Rather than describing a fixed vision of the future, I am interested in the tension between where we might be heading and what we may have left behind.