I am an artist working in animation, borrowing freely from the visual language and production techniques of the Hollywood blockbuster. While my work is sometimes mistaken for an attempt to position itself within popular culture, I use spectacle as a tool rather than a destination.

For me, animation is a way of thinking: a means of understanding the world and giving form to my thoughts about it. I am interested in how cinematic spectacle cuts through distraction, how images shape consciousness, and how animation can open onto other ways of interpreting reality.

My work is rooted in my own experiences with anxiety and mental illness, and in the strange clarity that comes through healing — the realization that the world is not only fear. That moment, when reality loosens, shifts, and becomes possible again, continues to guide my practice.

I am drawn to states of withdrawal, refusal, and reimagining: from the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan and South Korea, to the anarchist utopias of the Spanish Civil War, to small, uncanny shifts in everyday atmosphere. Across these references, I look for moments when the given world breaks open and another way of living becomes briefly visible.

At its core, my practice is an attempt to share that first moment of clarity: the feeling that the world is not only anxiety and fear, but also one filled with wonder, care, humor, and the possibility of something better.

Brucio finally opens the door! (Hikikomori-0)