About the Artist

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  My body of work is a visual dialogue between stillness and upheaval, where color, texture, and movement collide to reflect the shifting emotional and social landscapes we navigate daily. Each piece embodies a moment of transformation, whether personal, political, or natural, capturing the friction between serenity and seismic change. 

Through layered abstraction, dynamic contrasts, and unconventional materials, I seek to evoke the emotional undercurrents of our time: the quiet aftermath of upheaval, the resilience in uncertainty, and the beauty that emerges from disruption. My work invites the viewer to stand at the threshold of these forces, to find meaning in the shifting, fluid spaces between chaos and clarity.

Ultimately my art is an exploration of how we hold onto serenity in a world that is always moving.

My work is rooted in a deeply personal origin. In October 2017, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, an experience that profoundly reshaped my understanding of the body, resilience, and identity. Compelled to document her journey, I began an artistic odyssey that evolved into my Survivor Series. This body of work centers on the intimate exchange between survivor and artist, each participant shares their story, and I translate those narratives through paint onto their forever-altered bodies.

These works are not predetermined compositions but intuitive responses to both the physical surface and the emotional weight it carries. By allowing the process to guide me, I create space for a raw and honest expression of feeling. Color, gesture, and mark-making become the language through which emotions surface. Moments of comfort may emerge in softer passages, while areas of tension or unease reveal themselves through more urgent or fragmented forms.

The body becomes both canvas and collaborator, holding lived experience while actively shaping the direction of the work. I view this process as a dialogue between myself, the survivor, and the evolving painting. To impose a fixed outcome would be to deny this vital exchange; instead, I embrace uncertainty as essential to vitality and truth in the work.

Each finished piece stands as both a visual record of process and a layered emotional document. It reflects not only the survivor’s story, but also the shifting states of empathy, vulnerability, and connection that arise during its creation. Through this work, I seek to honor transformation, not as loss alone, but as a complex, deeply human redefinition of self.