What
I work primarily across mixed media on mid-size to large cotton canvas. My process often includes paper and plaster to add depth and texture. I use a range of materials, including acrylic (both paint and marker), oil (paint and pastel), spray paint, ink, and charcoal. Each medium serves a specific purpose within the work and carries its own origin story.
Why
I paint to give form to the internal pressure created by living within overlapping, and at times conflicting, systems of law, beliefs, and culture. My work explores how to survive, resist, and remain visible within structures that were never designed with care for their inhabitants. Working primarily in mixed media on canvas, I build surfaces that mirror the accumulation of rules, noise, memory, and emotion.
The central question guiding my practice is how justice is experienced on a human scale when abstract, conflicting systems dominate daily life. Please do not mistake my work for being neutral. I am critical of systems that prioritize efficiency, profit, and control over care, empathy, and dignity. The recurring use of case law pages as an underlayer is intentional. The law is literally embedded beneath the surface, shaping everything above it while remaining partially obscured.
My abstract portraiture avoids polished representation. Faces repeat, distort, and fragment, pushing against the idea that identity must be legible or fixed in order to be valued. This is a direct rejection of systems that reduce people to categories, cases, or statistics.
I promote the idea that emotional responses such as anger, frustration, and play are valid forms of knowledge. My heightened sensitivity to injustice is not an obstacle in my practice, but rather a fuel. I paint from a position of urgency and embodiment, using repetition, texture, and physical gesture to insist that feeling is inseparable from thinking. Ultimately, my work aims to depict a more honest representation of how systems are felt physically and to create a space where complexity, contradiction, and humanity coexist without interruption.