About
Some artists arrive at the studio by way of art school. Others take a longer route — through medical school, clinical practice, and the quiet, decades-long work of listening carefully to what people carry inside them. That’s the path that shaped this work.
A practicing physician and psychoanalyst by training, and a sculptor, photographer, and mixed-media artist by devotion, this practice lives at the intersection of those two lives. The same attention that tracks a patient’s unspoken hesitation can read the grain of weathered wood. The same patience that holds space for transformation in a clinical hour can coax meaning from a rusted hinge or a freshly cast plaster form.
The materials are deliberate: steel, plaster, photo-encaustic, found objects, photography — things marked by time and use. Objects that have already lived a little. They arrive in the studio carrying residue, and the work is to layer, shape, and combine them into something that holds new meaning without erasing where they’ve been.
Themes of identity, belonging, and transformation run through the work — but so does a genuine delight in simpler mysteries: the expressiveness of a tool’s line, the quiet drama of shadow, the way roughness and softness can share a single surface. These tensions don’t resolve so much as they resonate — much like the contradictions that define human experience.
Making art is, at its heart, an act of attention. Each project begins with looking closely, gathering materials, and staying open to what the process reveals. Some pieces come together quickly; others unfold slowly, changing as they’re lived with in the studio. Trial, adaptation, and surprise are always part of it. The greatest gift we can give the other is the quality of our attention.
What you’ll find here is work made with curiosity, care, and deep respect for the unexpected. Each piece reflects a belief in the value of small acts well made — how they accumulate into meaning and create space for genuine connection. The invitation is open: bring your own perspective, your own resonances. The work will meet you there.
ABOUT SOFIA