WORK BRUTER (2020–2024) emerges from the COVID period and the disruption that followed. The title reflects both the physical toll of illness and the pressure of systems imposed at scale, intersecting with the weight of sustaining a family and navigating heightened responsibility during isolation. Across the series, the work operates as self-portraiture—not as image, but as condition: a body and mind moving through strain, confinement, and reactivation.
Built around the constraint of spray paint as the primary medium, the work forces it into controlled, physical mark-making—drawing, cutting, and constructing with a material that resists precision. The surfaces remain in constant motion; marks collide, reroute, and refuse to settle. What appears deliberate is the result of sustained pressure against instability, holding a continuous field of restless, physical energy.
