My practice challenges the idea of belonging within a certain time and space by exploring the impact that archetypal images play into our perception of reality. Can we feel nostalgic about a place or an instant we never experienced outside of our head? Approaching painting as an alchemical practice, I compose allegorical scenes at the same time sacred and mundane, intimate and universal, presenting the world as a mystery to be participated. In the dusk between the clarity of reason and the impenetrable darkness beyond our reach, projections of our fears and hopes work to reduce these hypotheses to something known. Yet entangled with what remains unresolved – they end up creating new mythologies.