ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic practice is driven by a relentless desire to push formal and conceptual boundaries. I strive to create a space where memory, perception, and imagination converge revealing our interconnectedness—with the world around us, with each other, and with the countless threads of human history that have shaped our present.

My paintings explore the interconnectivity of human experience. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources—including maps, city planning, and archaeological sites—I seek to express how traces of human activity resonate through the lens of memory, perception, free association, and imagination. Engaging the tension between contrasting elements—geometric and organic forms and complementary colors—to create dynamic compositions which activate the pictorial space and viewers visual engagement with the work.

Through experimentation and transformation my sculptural work evolves organically. This approach fosters an ongoing dialogue between me, the materials, the present, the past, and the inherent potential within each element, resulting in dynamic structures. Working primarily with wood, metal, or papier-mâché, I begin with simple, elemental forms, gradually assembling and manipulating them into new structures that challenge the limits of materiality and form.

Maria Morabito