My work constructs symbolic environments in which human figures navigate systems of moral, psychological, and ecological force beyond individual control. Recent paintings bring the figure into closer proximity with these systems, emphasizing gesture, confrontation, and witnessing rather than portraiture or narrative. Working in a neo-expressionist language of flattened space, smooth color fields, and distorted anatomy, I prioritize states of being over likeness. Color operates as an ethical and energetic structure—guiding movement, pressure, and attention within each composition. Landscapes function as governing conditions rather than settings, and figures appear as intermediaries attempting orientation without resolution. The work resists realism and closure, proposing worlds that are entered, endured, and partially understood rather than explained.