Not the tree,
but its shadow.

Not the event,
but what is left behind.

Not the form,
but its weight.

Not the black shape,
but the pressure it creates within space.

My path is from image to presence.

I keep removing narrative, figure, story, effect and decoration.

And I keep light, surface, mass, silence and time.

This is why Residue is not an accidental title.

My subject is neither charcoal nor abstraction.

My subject is what remains after disappearance.

This series focuses on what remains after pressure, abrasion and partial removal.

Each work is built through layering and reduction. Charcoal and pigment are applied, pressed into the ground, and worked back repeatedly, leaving a surface that carries only what resists disappearance.

Charcoal, pigment, paper and wood become records of accumulation, compression and erosion.

These works register what remains.