Artist Statement: Touch the Light: Mixed Media

This practice uses authored systems to transform light events into physical art objects. Within the studio, initial conditions are set by constructing geometric assemblages, balancing colored light, and using pinhole optics to record the interaction of light across the shapes.

Once this optical framework is established, the work moves entirely into physical material transformation. Using acrylic gels, pressure, and substrate panels, multi stage image transfers convert the initial exposures into layered modulations of pigment density. Rather than sitting flat on a surface, ambient room light penetrates and reflects off the underlying panel or aluminum, creating surface depth that shifts with the viewer's position.

By establishing overarching rules and allowing the physical transfer to execute the result, the process balances intentional structure with material chance. Final curation determines which singular objects remain as permanent records of the system.