MASKS

These images are not just photographs—they are impressions of perception itself, suspended in the instant where thought and feeling meet form. Each work in the Masks series is built through improvisation, introspection, and a tactile engagement with light, line, and surface. The result is a body of work that does not document the visible world but invents a new visual language—one rooted in motion, memory, and the inner architecture of seeing. Influenced by Carmen Herrera’s minimalist rigor and Sanzo Wada’s delicate color theory, these compositions operate like faces behind faces: not meant to hide, but to reveal. They do not illustrate; they evoke. They are expressions of time rendered physical—each piece a standalone object that hovers between photography, painting, and design. 

Created through a process I call “action processing,” the masks are built intuitively, with no fixed orientation, encouraging the viewer to choose their own entry point. Like visual poems without punctuation, they resist closure and remain open to interpretation. Select works from this series were exhibited in the Project Space at Benrubi Gallery as part of my solo exhibition EXTREMES (January–March 2020), a show dedicated to redefining the possibilities of contemporary photographic abstraction. These works are artifacts of an experimental practice that blends cinematic thought with painterly touch, composed not to be deciphered but to be experienced.