The small canvases (10x12 cm) are based on my Instagram feed. Noting that the everyday plethora of lo-fi images on my screen could at times pander more credibly to my personal narrative than photographs I took myself, which could be heavily influenced or defined by applied photography, I started to lean into a practice free of those implications. Oil painting comes laden with its own meaning and I like the playfulness and leeway in overstating certain tactile qualities of the image, prone to being lost in compression, while assimilating or simplifying other aspects. The time spent with the kind of image that typically consumes quickly and invests little in is spread over a longer duration of both making and viewing.
