Statement from the Artist

Through fragments of memory, unremitting emotion, and vital fantasy, my work finds its blood supply and creates an ecosystem where realism slips into abstraction and something vulnerable takes shape.

Color is a love language. Form, a kind of remembering. I follow the romance between the two—how they blur and bloom into emotional terrains that feel both familiar and otherworldly. These pieces are not about answers. They’re about feeling—about what we carry, what we inherit, and what we’re still trying to understand. Each one is a question, a pulse, a place to pause.

My process is less about method than about return: returning to myself, to my own archive, to what once felt complete but now asks to be undone. Scissors and glue are more than objects; they are tools of time travel. By cutting apart older works that have “expired” in my life and weaving them into new forms, I create a dialogue between past and present selves.  

My work is inseparable from lived experience. It interacts with the cycles of addiction and hereditary trauma that shape my bloodline, while also venturing into experiences that are entirely new to it—acts of healing, creativity, and becoming that feel radical in their unfamiliarity. In this way, the work becomes both a reverberation and a karmic veering.

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