Sensitive Ontologies
“A visual research project where painting becomes a living map of ideas, emotions, and relationships.”
Sensitive Ontologies is an ongoing exploration of painting as a living system — a way of thinking through image, matter, and memory. The works unfold as constellations of paintings, drawings, and artist’s books that trace the subtle interdependencies between perception, ecology, and knowledge. Rather than depicting the world, they attempt to reveal its hidden architecture: the fragile weave of relations that connects things, thoughts, and sensations.
Informed by complexity theory and relational philosophy, the project approaches knowledge not as something possessed but as something that emerges — an event of encounter between the mind, the body, and the world. Each work behaves like an open organism where colour, line, and text interact in unpredictable ways, generating a topology of meanings that refuses closure. Painting becomes both method and metaphor: a porous terrain where intuition, reason, and chance coexist.
Developed between the studio and the library, Sensitive Ontologies draws from my background in both art and librarianship. The archive, here, is not a static repository but a resonant field — a place where fragments speak to one another and where the act of collecting becomes an act of connection. I am interested in how images and words think together, how they form temporary networks of understanding that shift with every gaze.
At its heart, the project asks how art can function as a mode of knowledge — not by explaining, but by sustaining the tension between what can and cannot be said.
For essays and reflections that accompany this body of work, please visit the Writings section.