Things Left Unsaid

September 2, 2025


I don’t chase perfection. I’m not interested in polishing the life out of a piece. What moves me is immediacy. Spontaneity. The honesty of a first mark. There’s a kind of truth that only shows up when you stop trying to make everything “right.” My work isn’t about completion, it’s about capturing the moment before completion. The gesture, the impulse, the thought that’s still becoming.

People often ask why I leave parts of a painting undone, but that’s the point. I want you to meet me halfway. To engage. To finish the thought in your own imagination. The absence is intentional. It’s an invitation.

In many ways, my work is more about feeling than form. They’re not pristine blueprints, they’re emotional maps. Sometimes a smudge, a scratch, or a barely-there line says more than something fully rendered. I don’t need to explain everything. I want the work to breathe, to remain open, vulnerable, alive.

There’s beauty in what’s left unsaid. The fragments, the spontaneity, the raw edge of a thought, that’s where the real soul of the work lives. At least for me. I just try to stay out of the way and let it speak.