Mind Tattoos

My Work and Aesthetic

My work examines the behavior of light and color within darkness, and the forms and symbolism that emerge from that encounter. Translucent pieces, cast in resin and rare earth minerals, capture light, bend it, and return it. These materials absorb illumination and re-emit it, so the surface does not remain static. As color recedes, the form appears to shift and breathe until only light remains. The darkness is not a backdrop but the condition that makes this return visible: light altered by the work, then given back to the field that defines it. In that exchange, form becomes symbol—the visible trace of light held, bent, and released.

These sculptures are not static objects. Color is used to set a mood, drawn from color theory and applied through the material itself. The latest series is cast from botanical molds in a strong palette of rare earth elements. Their response to light and to the visible spectrum makes bold color possible, not as surface decoration but as something held inside the form. The result is a luminosity that moves past the physical fact of the sculpture and toward the spiritual.

The work luminesces in the dark, drawing on the stored light of rare earth elements. What appears is not only a glow but an evocation—something that meets a spiritual instinct already present in the viewer. My hope is that the sculpture will register at that level: a visual experience that opens onto a quieter, more inward passage, each piece lit from within by the material and by the act of looking.