My work uses charcoal portraiture to examine the relationship between aging, masculinity, and psychological exposure. I am interested in faces shaped by time: creased skin, compressed features, physical tension, and the visible wear of lived experience. These marks are not incidental details but carriers of meaning.
Working in charcoal allows me to build and disrupt the image simultaneously. I develop each drawing through cycles of layering, erasure, adjustment, and close observation, pushing the portrait beyond likeness toward a more charged emotional presence. Exaggeration becomes a way of clarifying rather than distorting—bringing forward the vulnerability, gravity, and endurance embedded in the form.
I am drawn to subjects that resist idealization. Through them, I aim to create work that treats age, imperfection, and bodily erosion as sites of dignity, tension, and truth.
