My artistic practice lies at the convergence of visual arts and autobiographical creative writing, integrating mixed-media techniques, painting, drawing, and collage.

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I loved writing and painting as a child in communist Romania, but the political and social climate before and after the Revolution of 1989 was not a good emotional and mental space for me to develop as an artist. Later, a debilitating anxiety disorder I’ve been living with for years became the starting point of my artistic journey.

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Through my work, I navigate my identity as someone who lived through the brutal and often surreal, absurd realities of a totalitarian regime and its legacy, before emigrating to the UK. Drawing on personal and collective memories from my formative years, as well as autobiographical storytelling, I explore the intersection of historical memory, trauma, and the role of oppression in shaping creativity and psychological development. Growing up under totalitarianism stifled my ability to express myself, both emotionally and artistically. This suppression later fuelled my fascination with movements like Dada, surrealism, and abstract expressionism, and gave rise to an ongoing obsession with the expressive potential of asemic writing (writing as a form of mark-making rather than meaning-making) as a way of holding together all that I have long wanted to express but have never fully been able to. My practice exists somewhere between the figurative and the abstract, developing a visual language through the juxtaposition of personal imagery, symbols, and meanings with collective memory. There is something compulsive about my art-making process: returning to the same memories, images, marks, and gestures, caught in a tension between the desire to articulate something and the freedom for the work to remain ambiguous.