This series speaks to the fragility of biodiversity depicting animals as ghostly voids within their own ecosystems. Each canvas portrays a carefully chosen environment — a melting glacier, a scorched savanna, a vanishing rainforest — rendered with rich, vivid colors. In stark contrast, the animals themselves are shown as empty, translucent silhouettes, mere echoes of their presence.

I want this to be a call to awareness, a visual elegy that mourns disappearing wildlife while urging viewers to imagine a world without them.

One of the things I have learned on this journey is that I am continually playing with elements, ideas, and colors. As I experiment and search for my own way to create, many of my works do not belong into a series. This is a collection of those works.

Everyday life in New York City is a tangled chaos of beliefs, traditions, and lifestyles, a constant swirl of energy where solitude is rare and anonymity fleeting. The city pulses with diversity and movement, its streets alive with overlapping conversations, cultural expressions, and the relentless rhythm of human activity. In such a dynamic environment, it is unlikely for anyone to be isolated for long — that is, until an emergency forces everything to stop. During the lockdown, when the familiar noise and bustle of the city fell into an eerie stillness, I found myself cut off from the routines and spaces that once grounded me, including my studio. With nowhere to go and time stretching endlessly, I turned inward, escaping reality by imagining serene, untouched places far from sirens and shuttered streets. These internal landscapes became a form of refuge, a quiet rebellion against confinement. This collection of images is born from that period — visual meditations on peace, stillness, and the places, real or imagined, where I might find calm amidst uncertainty.

Sailors and explorers use the words “terra ferma” to announce the imminent end of a long, often arduous, voyage. The cry is simultaneously charged with the emotions that led to a departure, the struggles of the journey, and the joys of the arrival. It is a cry of relief and hope. Terra ferma has most recently come to represent the plight of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea in small crafts to land in Italy, Spain and Greece. The irregular migration from North Africa and Turkey has turned into a daily wave of thousands risking their lives to escape from Syria and other countries in the Middle East and central Africa. Personally, I feel this applies to the many waves of people crossing borders the world over simply in hope for a better life.

The images from this series are patchworks of struggles. They are impulsive expressions of the energy and commotion of my inner world.  As contrasting and contracting emotions battle to supersede one another, stories briefly bubble up to the surface and I rush to catch each bubble before the next surfaces. Some linger; some flee. Some are just left incomplete, as the color of a new sensation demands my attention. 

Reflections is unconscious work without any meaning or ideas. It is a collection of direct, spontaneous paintings which begun by mixing pigments directly on the canvas. Their blending and overlaying to contrast and highlight one another provide my only guidance. These paintings are impulsive reactions merely reflecting a status of mind. 

A series about juxtapositions. Dynamic street scenes – photographic in origin – are abstracted into monochromatic forms and gestures on raw linen.

This is the way I experience the city as walk about it. The energy is stimulating; however, taking in so many inputs at once also brings about a lack of clarity. The images in this series - photographic in origin - are stripped of all that I found unnecessary. They are no longer about representation and they are not about abstraction either. Each is reduced to the few details, shapes and colors which gave my moment stability.

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I want to create a window and bring a peaceful moment into a city apartment. Then, I could simply walk in the living room to escape and sit quietly on the beach. I could enjoy the sound of the distant waves, the feeling of the sand, and the endless sky. Tranquillity.

I use dripping layers of latex, enamel and acrylic paint on stretched cotton canvas to create this ongoing series. Each portrait is the unique, unstructured result of a single session while I recall images of the subject from my memories.