I use the landscape as a form of escapism. Escapism is common in fiction, but less so in visual art. I want to create worlds that feel like stories I read as a child, places where everything is possible, where things that seemed static suddenly move and become alive (like rocks or trees moving around like clouds). Why landscapes? I don’t come from a traditional landscape painting background; I don’t use photographs or work from references. I am world building, creating something that doesn’t exist and playing with contradictory terms. It’s that purgatory between the real and the unreal. The land and the air. Between knowing and not knowing. It’s about discovering a line between imagination and memory and losing myself in that space.