Photographic figures re-authored through painterly gesture

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Rooted in photographic source material originating in the late 1980s and early 1990s, The Schiele Dialogue revisits the body as a site of instability rather than description. Each work begins with a pigment print on Arches paper and is transformed through layers of acrylic and oil pencil. The figure is partially obscured, interrupted, or re-authored through gesture, shifting the image away from documentation toward psychological presence. The works do not quote Schiele directly, but enter into dialogue with his enduring inquiry into vulnerability, exposure, and the tension between body and being.