My work explores the meeting point between language, culture, and visual storytelling. I have painted throughout my life, developing my foundation in the advanced art track at school and later completing a two\u2011year program in painting and graphic arts at a private art school in Austria. Early exhibitions in the United States and Europe shaped my understanding of art as a dialogue across cultures \u2014 a dialogue that continues to define my practice today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a long professional chapter outside the arts, I returned to painting in 2024 with a sharpened focus. Since 2026, I have been actively developing a body of work centered on illustration and the visual interpretation of idioms. Idioms fascinate me because they reveal how cultures imagine their worlds: through metaphors, humor, contradictions, and emotional landscapes. I collect idioms from different countries, compare their meanings, and translate them into images that highlight both the beauty and the friction of intercultural communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This focus is rooted in my personal and professional environment. My family works in intercultural awareness training, and I am trained as a mediator to better navigate the misunderstandings that arise in international contexts. These experiences taught me that language is not only a tool \u2014 it is a worldview. My illustrations examine how these worldviews collide, overlap, and transform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A second influence in my work comes from my engagement with Ayurveda\u2019s elemental theory and Vastu Shastra. I became interested in how balance, space, and energetic principles shape human wellbeing. These ideas inform my compositions, guiding how I use form, rhythm, and spatial tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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