Ethics and Morality represents a greater drift from maintaining the appearance of the matrix of circles that make up the structural ground of the painting. For me, it’s a question of freedom itself. I agree with Zizek: “when we are feeling free, we are at our most subjugated.” It may sound a bit crazy, but the thing the makes me uncomfortable about pixels is that they are invisible, yet they are the support structure for all images on screens. This is why I leave the supporting matrix of circles visible in the paintings of recent years. I want to see both the structure that can unite us, as well as the beauty of playing within it in order to assert qualities and forms of living that essentially differ without losing relations altogether.

I am generally feeling very trapped by the social and political climate we are in, and wanted to express a toxic rage dwelling inside me while trying to stay rational, reasonable. The circles represent a solidarity across whatever class of beings we could imagine that unites all humans. The formal shifts that allow multiple beings to appear, by borrowing from the matrix while expressing other qualities, is the kind of heterogeneity that I’m looking for to make a general statement about belonging itself. I think insubstantial differences are worthy of attention, they can be the spice of life! But let’s not make them the grounds for separating ourselves from our neighbours. I advocate for cultural exchange over culture wars.

These are the thoughts running through my head as I develop these works.