portfolio/pɔːtˈfəʊliəʊ/ · n.
  1. a body of creative work, shown as evidence of a practice.
  2. a range of assets held, weighed against risk.

Painting risk. Pricing beauty.

An independent practice at the intersection of contemporary art and financial markets — treating noise, chance and value as the same raw material.

(01)ManifestoAbout

I work in the narrow space between a brushstroke and a balance sheet. Both are ways of pricing the invisible — one weighs beauty1, the other weighs risk2. My practice lets each discipline read the other: markets as material, paintings as positions.

  1. 1

    Keynes likened professional investment to a newspaper beauty contest: the task is not to pick the prettiest face, but the face everyone else will pick. The General Theory, 1936, ch. 12.

  2. 2

    Both are marked to market — a canvas at the fall of the hammer, a position at the closing bell.

Based

Online, and somewhere in between.

Focus

Contemporary art, markets, data & the aesthetics of uncertainty.

Status

Open to exhibitions, research & collaborations — 2026.

(02)PracticeTwo disciplines, one method
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Art

Painting, generative image-making and installation — using noise, chance and pigment as raw material.

  • Painting
  • Generative
  • Installation
  • Ink
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Finance

Research on markets, volatility and valuation — treating risk as a medium and price as a form of expression.

  • Markets
  • Quant
  • Valuation
  • Research
(03)Selected WorkCatalogue · 5 lots · 2024 — 2026
(04)Price / ValueA working theory

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde
S&P 500 200-day avg Premium Discount S&P 500 · 2019 — 2024 · scroll →
(06)ContactLet’s talk

Let’s build something worth holding.

Type
Instrument Serif, Inter Tight, JetBrains Mono
Data
S&P 500 daily closes, 2018 — 2024
Simulation
150 paths · 5 scenarios · re‑drawn every load
Edition
Vol. 01 · 2026
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