“My references are many, across different ages and places. My work navigates ideas around the social and the communal. I look to the past such as the Incan Empire as much as I look to figures in Russian constructivism, primarily Malevich with his structural systems.
In a spiritual way, I believe the Incans and Russian Constructivists are related in their quest for purity and form, as I see the world as interconnected and cyclical. In these past cultures, there are specificities in design from an artistic standpoint that create a cyclical momentum. In as much as I am interested in these pre-colonial systems and Russian Suprematism as a movement, I am also inspired by the Bauhaus movement, which combined pure form and design. There is something about striving to attain a better society from that time period that intrigues me.”