In my artistic work, I explore the representation of the human condition and its abysses. Working primarily with oil color and drawing across various scales, I return to recurring themes of life and survival in the broadest sense, optimization, and transience. My work examines humanity in all its depth and contradictions. At the center of my practice are relationships: between humans, between humans and animals, and between humans and their surroundings. I am interested in how power and hierarchy inscribe themselves into everyday gestures – in the subtext of a glance, a pose, or a staged scene – making them difficult to expose and confront. This is where the absurd and the uncanny often enter my images. Within the depicted relationships or situationships, I am drawn to the subtle and often disguised nature of violence – the kind that hints at a moment of brutality without explicitly revealing it. I am interested in how everyday violence is polished, aestheticized, or hidden beneath beauty, politeness, or spectacle. I take subjects and mundane phenomena from both high and pop culture and from everyday life – mainly from art history, contemporary art, folklore, fashion, and rural landscapes – and reassemble them into new realities. In my paintings and drawings something seems to be wrong and out of place, either the perspective, the (awkward) interaction of the figures or the present-like absence of something. What remains is the subject matter of the human, all too human.