My artistic practice is rooted in transformation and the dissolution of boundaries between life forms, echoing Surrealism’s fascination with metamorphosis and the unconscious. Water—its fluidity, force, and mutability—guides both my conceptual framework and material process. Like the gestural abstraction of Action Painting, I invite the organic behavior of materials to shape the work, allowing spontaneity and flow to co-create form. My sculptures resist fixed states, instead evolving with a biomorphic fluidity that blurs the lines between plant, animal, and human—between liquid and solid.
This instinct for hybridization has deep ancestral echoes. My grandmother was born in Transylvania, and from a young age I was steeped in the region’s myths, especially the lore surrounding Dracula. The vampire—neither fully alive nor dead, both feared and desired—embodies the liminal spaces that captivate my work. The mythologies passed down to me weren’t just stories, but psychological landscapes where identity, desire, and the unknown coexisted. Embracing and exploring the “shadow” of my unconscious is an important aspect of my art practice.
As a child, I was also enchanted by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid—a tale of transformation, sacrifice, and selfhood that mirrored the hybrid, feminine figures I identified with from Eastern European folklore. The mermaid’s dissolution into sea-foam resonated as a symbol of choosing one’s path at great personal cost, and affirmed my belief in the power of resisting containment. The path of my life as an artist reflects this core belief of following ones inner guide or intuition even if it involves sacrificing aspects of material comforts.
