About the Artist

Through my artwork, I hope to uncover the parallel dialogues in surgery and printmaking—between positive and negative space, traditional and modern tools, patient and surgeon.

Surgery and printmaking undeniably parallel one another, each revealing the potential to create within the space of destruction. As a surgeon, I deconstruct the human body to heal, maintaining precarious, yet critical tension and counter-tension of human tissue. As an artist, I carve into a woodblock or etch into a copper plate to create images exposing this tension and counter-tension between surgeon and patient through visual dialogue. My artwork aims to reconcile these delicate parallels and oppositions—the perceived monotony of the surgeon’s life, the moral discomfort of learning on unknowing bodies as a surgical resident, and the neglected impact of surgery on the patient.