Elam School of Fine Arts, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Arts
National Youth Awards Waikato Society of Arts, Merit Award Recipient for 'Kiosco arte d'magia', 2023

This research delves into the dynamic relationship between identity, vision, memory and meaning through a phenomenological approach to street culture and the urban environment. Street culture is characterised by its ever-changing nature, reflecting the prevailing energy of the time. The buildings, streets and cities also store our memories, being spaces of connectivity, where we live and leave our traces behind. Similar to memory, graffiti is fugitive. 
The patterns in my inner world shape the lens through which I see the world. The external environment influences and informs this internal lens. By capturing fleeting experiences that perhaps only occupy physical space for a matter of seconds, these moments of time become fixed. As the image moves from film to ink and onto the substrate a transformation of memory occurs. The essence of human experience radiates an aura, unveiling the ‘energy’ or ‘air’ of that time. By stripping each piece of its original colour, the present representation of the moment becomes detached from its past. 
1. Phenomenology refers to lived experience, placing emphasis on the subjective conscious experience of reality through our senses.