Installation shot: Entropy Studies at ZXY Gallery, Bushwick, NY, June 20th - July 12th, 2026

Entropy Studies, 2026

A set of questions:

Can certainty be summoned through the repetition of a mark?
What does the entropic breakdown of a system look like?
What happens when you reduce the input that goes into a transformative process?
Can reduction offer clarity on which gateway to pass through?
How many times can a thing be repeated before it expires?

Entropy Studies are an exercise to explore the variations of a tight set of variables. Intuitive lines form the foundation of particles, stars, or cosmological diagrams. Each study is an organ belonging to a larger biological or mechanical system. Their individual existence is inextricable from their place within a larger whole. Nothing begins without first treating the hand as a thinking entity. Repetition creates a frame to observe the hand’s restlessness, its unwillingness to perform the same action twice.

Holding Triptych, 2026

Moving from the process of infatuation representing by Arousal, through an interior holding of oneself in Vast Interiority, and ending with the painful rupture that results from Severing, this triptych narrates the passage through a romantic entanglement by representing the possibilities of what it means to hold someone, or something.

Jouissance, 2026. graphite on paper, 53 × 53”

Jouissance, which can refer to an orgasm in French, is the term that Lacan uses to describe enjoyment that goes beyond the pleasure principle, sometimes to the extent of being painful or unbearable. I imagine this state as a sensorial plane where bodies overlap with each other in sexual rapture and horror, all becoming intertwined.

Anamorphosis (The Ambassadors and I), 2026. graphite, ink, and gesso on paper, 53 × 53”

“…Holbein makes visible for us here something that is simply the subject as annihilated - annihilated in the form that is, strictly speaking, the imaged embodiment of the minus-phi of castration, which for us, centers the whole organization of the desires through the framework of the fundamental drives.” -Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI

The Passion, 2026. graphite, ink, and gesso on paper, 53 × 53”

The Passion draws upon one quote; "I had entered the Sabbath orgy. Now I know what happens in the dark of the mountains on the nights of orgies. I know! I know with horror: things enjoy themselves. The thing of which things are made delights itself — that is the raw joy of black magic." -Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

Anonymous Desire I-VI

This series uses found images from the gay sex app Grindr as its foundation. Most of the images obscure the identity of the user along with the explicit nature of the photograph, so that it can slide past the algorithm which is trained to detect full nudity. This obfuscation often requires digital tools which create a kind of “ready made” paintings, which I printed on 8×10” canvases. On these printed canvases I’ve drawn with charcoal and poured melted wax in order to create a tangible intervention onto these images of pure impersonal desire.