I didn't have a practice for a year, which was a huge change, and during that time, I didn't have a studio. I had to be present with her pretty much most of the time, so it didn't work for me to rent a space. So I started to think about "how can I change my practice, how can I find a compromise between our life circumstances and things that I love to do"? So I started to do photographs and do videos and in the younger years of my practice, I used to do a lot of prints and zines and work with collage, so I started to think of how that can be part of my practice since it's way more approachable. I can just work from my home, from our living room. I can read -- reading, that was a big part, I started to do reading at home, a lot of theory that I would previously do in the studio as part of my process. Now I started to do that at home, and I can when she's playing or when she's napping, during those moments. It made me prioritize my practice so so much because I just don't have much time now, so all of the free time that I have is so precious, so I try to really think of my time being here [in the studio] as radical self-care - Portrait of Ksenia Kil and Agna, 2025 Oil on canvas, 48" x 60"
I’m still such a victim of this hierarchical notion of art-making and just being like “no one wants to see me make a sock”. I don’t know! A lot of my stuff is so family orientated. I think about, "What am I doing now? I’m darning socks and knitting sweaters, I want to make a new slip-cover for my couch", it’s all so home and family oriented — is that, is that okay? It’s like, I’m not a man sculpting. Should I be a man sculpting something? - Portrait of Hannah Goodman (Hannah Isolde) and Chloé, 2025 Oil on canvas, 36" x 96"