I am based between Abu Dhabi and New York.  
My practice acts around semiotic dissonance, how our personal modes of seeing can create alternate perceptions. My work deals with the realm of figuration and abstraction, questioning the idea of image-making. I work through the dialectic nature of painting, finding language in line and color, applying vague representations that act more as abstract forms than their actual representation. The application of paint with a sense of humour, it is important that they exist as paintings and not refer to an image. The paintings carry out a logic in breaking down an image, stripping it to its roots and eventually abandoning it to the point of abstraction. The installations along with the paintings such as RC army choppers, tennis balls, mosquitos catchers, exotic fruits, etc, all act as an extension of the painting, stripping the objects into their simple formal qualities such as shape and color. The paintings derive from my interest in geo-politics but the paintings exist as blotches of color. I strip an event of its recognizability, sports and historical events are entryways into these abstract shapes and colors until they become something else. In dealing with signifiers and how they create their collective myth.