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About my work

In 2015, I left home for America. The stark change in my visual environment really struck a chord within. It made me begin to observe and reflect. The stories that once were... resurfaced. Adventures of discovering lost cricket balls in forsaken gardens. Morning drives spent marveling at bulldozers and construction workers who seemed to create with their own Lego sets. Such images and memories inspired Playschool.

 The visual language developed over the course of the last few years is driven by my fascination for these memories. As an artist, I have tried exploring and expressing this fascination through color and composition. 

With my work, I am interested in telling stories. I am driven by the idea of reconstructing memories and reality through a visual experience, fertile to the creation of stories itself. Toys are used as a vehicle to achieve this. Legos function as memory stamps, markers that allude to form, character and color as I use them to reconstruct my own stories and memories.  

I look deeper into the idea of childish misunderstanding and the transformation of reality. I seek to unpack the very act of seeing and imagining everyday things as they are transformed, because we believed...