Poiesis Study no. 1, 16”x20”
2024
“Poiesis” is a concept in ancient Greek philosophy that refers to the process of creation through imagination, art, or intellect.. It is used to describe the creative productions of consciousness and encompasses various creative endeavors, including artistic expression and scientific discovery.
This process of emergence is where the essentialism of beauty finds its ground. Beauty, in this context, is not simply about what is “pretty” or harmonious, but about what is intrinsically compelling—what draws the mind, the body, and the spirit into a state of heightened perception. It is that which pleases and intrigues, that which arrests and reveals, that which stirs both intellect and emotion. Beauty is not applied to the thing after its making—it is woven into its essence. It arises through proportion, tension, resolution, rhythm, and conceptual clarity.

The use of color usage of soft petal pinks and visceral crimsons suggest a biological intimacy, as though the paintings are anatomical in nature. The marks are not merely gestural, but corporeal, like the trace of something internal becoming external. In this way, the work resonates with metaphors relating to the heart and body as a whole: as chambers of reception, emotional membranes where sensation and memory collect.

Poiesis, 48” x 60”

2024

Across this body of work, poiesis unfolds not as a concept, but as an event—a visual and material articulation of something coming into being. These paintings are not about fixed form; they are about the conditions under which form arises. Through gesture, density, rupture, and repetition, they reveal how beauty emerges through, not in spite of, tension. It is not imposed—it is discovered, excavated, exposed.

Each work exists as a site of becoming, where beauty is not an aesthetic bonus but a structural necessity—a byproduct of truthfulness, vulnerability, and the courage to remain unresolved.