I’ve never been one to fit neatly into a defined box from The Delicate Balance Between Intention and Intuition, 2023, acrylic paint, detail

Photography: Bente Andermahr

Paintings that exist where structural order meets material resistance.

I treat paint as a construction material, building three-dimensional forms that hold themselves in space. Rather than applying paint to a surface, I cast and assemble it into self-supporting structures with weight, mass, and physical presence.

Built from grids or repeated modular units, the paintings exist in a state of material tension. While I establish the initial structural framework, the final geometry is determined by the material's response to gravity and temperature over time. As the paint undergoes the curing process, edges slump, surfaces warp, and irregularities emerge. This transition marks the boundary between intentional control and material behaviour, exposing the vulnerability within rigid systems and revealing form as an evolving state rather than a static outcome.

My background in material science informs how I navigate these physical transitions pushing paint to perform beyond its conventional limits. Ranging from intimate objects to human scale installations, these structures use repetition and construction to test the material logic of the medium. Without a permanent support, the paint remains entirely open to its environment, making each form a direct physical record of the forces and the spaces surrounding it.