Constructed Selves
Geometric Abstraction · Structures of Perception · Psychological Architecture
Constructed Selves explores identity as an evolving architecture—something continually assembled, dismantled, and reconstructed through memory, perception, and lived experience. Rather than understanding the self as a fixed entity, I approach it as an unstable arrangement of internal structures, shaped by forces both within and beyond our control.
Through bold geometric forms, saturated color fields, fragmented symbols, and unexpected spatial relationships, I investigate the tension between order and unpredictability. Lines establish boundaries only to be interrupted; shapes overlap, collide, and resist containment. Within these compositions, rigid structures coexist with fluid, biomorphic forms, suggesting the constant negotiation between the systems we construct and the parts of ourselves that refuse definition.
I am interested in the invisible frameworks through which we organize experience—the psychological boundaries, learned patterns, and shifting perceptions that influence how we understand ourselves and the world around us. In these paintings, geometry becomes a language of both stability and constraint, while expressive gestures and irregular forms introduce uncertainty, movement, and the possibility of transformation.
The compositions often resemble fragmented maps, architectural plans, or unfamiliar systems of communication. Yet their apparent structures offer no definitive instructions. Instead, they invite viewers to navigate spaces where meaning is continually constructed and disrupted, where separation can imply connection, and where even the most deliberate arrangements remain vulnerable to change.
Constructed Selves considers identity not as something we discover fully formed, but as something we continually create. Through the interplay of structure and spontaneity, these works question the boundaries that define us and imagine the possibilities that emerge when those boundaries begin to dissolve.
