Statement from the Artist

I make surreal landscapes from fragments of memory, emotion, and sensation—where realism slips into abstraction and something vulnerable takes shape. My work holds space for what’s often left unsaid: the weight of lineage, the tenderness of love, the quiet ache of sorrow, the shadow of trauma.

Color is a love language. Form, a kind of remembering. I follow the romance between the two—how they collide, 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.

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