In a world where the LEDs in our black mirrors highlight and amplify everything about society, both good and bad, Lighting Up Art introduces a completely new language. I use RGB LEDs to illuminate the cracks in fragile canvas sculptures. Each work adapts to whoever's looking at it, shifting colors based on what the viewer brings to the experience. There's something about the way these pieces change and glow that pulls people in, that makes them stop and really look.

Light and matter, modern and ancient. These are the foundations of my paintings. I work with stucco, and when it cracks and forms that beautiful craquelure pattern, something magical happens. The painting stops being flat. It reaches out to you. I've always been fascinated by these cracks, by the way they create their own landscape on the canvas. So I started combining them with light. Through these cracks, light becomes my paint, my primary medium. It replaces color entirely. The cracks let me paint with light in a way that feels both ancient and utterly contemporary. The colored LEDs aren't just decoration. They guide viewers through a journey, using medical imagery and analogies to explore how deeply our anatomy and psyche are connected.

I build everything myself, starting from stretching the canvas. This construction process is part of the art, not just preparation for it. Because they're handmade, the canvases have this fragility to them. They show the imperfections, the little mistakes that happen when you work with your hands. That's intentional. In our increasingly virtual, filtered, editable world, perfection seems just within reach. But we still live in an imperfect reality, and I want my work to acknowledge that.

When the lights are off, something else happens. Lighting Up Art becomes pure matter, rough stucco marked by cracks. Under gallery lights or daylight, the works transform. They become more tangible, more vulnerable somehow. This external light creates shadows where the LED glow used to be, revealing the three-dimensional nature of the pieces in a completely different way.