Painting helps me understand the reality that surrounds me and communicate my understanding with the world. I strive to find harmony in the simple things around me and present them from an unexpected, intriguing angle—to surprise both myself and the viewer.

My greatest challenge is capturing a single moment and distilling its essence. These days, I am working on a series of paintings that explore the concept of time: the time required to create a work, the time spent observing the subject, the layering of different moments within a single painting, and the evolving relationship between time and form. I reflect on our inability to move time—and yet, I imagine, even for a moment, what it would feel like if we could. What would we change? How might we reshape reality? My work exists in the space between the moment of creation and the moment of contemplation.

I am interested in how this particular time affects me—especially in the midst of war, unfolding both in my birthplace and where I am now. Some places that live in my memory no longer exist in reality. I now see how fragile everything is, how our lives are bound by time, and how uncertain the future remains. And yet, against all of this, time itself stands eternal.