My diaries function as blueprints for my paintings. They contain my structured yet intimate thoughts that map the emotional and symbolic architecture of each work. Rather than being purely reflective or confessional, the diaries are where I work out visual ideas, emotional tensions, and thematic direction. They hold recurring images, coded language, and narrative fragments that later reappear—transformed—on the canvas. In this sense, the act of writing is not separate from painting but a crucial part of the creative process, where the conceptual scaffolding is laid.

The paintings then become the material realization of what’s first constructed in the diaries, allowing my to shift from internal exploration to external expression. Each painting is thus a built environment emerging from the architecture of thought and feeling laid out in my notebooks.