Artist Statement

My work is part diary, part inquisitive obsession. And my process doesn’t follow traditional fine art paths. It starts with my nosy need to know, to uncover, to find the root.

Each piece begins with a rabbit hole: I gather fragments from films, music, Instagram, Pinterest, articles, books. I’m always circling a topic.

Sometimes it’s white Christian nationalism. Sometimes it’s Black femininity & the aesthetics of excess.
Maybe it’s how the erotic and the spiritual overlap.
Always, I’m connecting my lived experiences to global issues and universal human questions: how the micro (relationships) mimics the macro (systems of relation).

The fragments I collect become weighted references. Once I’m far enough in a rabbit hole, I choose images that symbolically represent the tension I’m exploring in that moment.

My compositions are formed but never fixed. A painting might start from a single reference, or a mix of several, but once I see it in the context of a body of work, its meaning shifts.
Symbols merge.
Titles change.
Series emerge.
A painting’s meaning can transform in relation to another work— reflecting the same micro/macro interconnectedness I’m drawn to. That’s when I write. Poems, prose, and short essays become extensions of the paintings, or explanations to myself about what I was really chasing.

At the core, I’m exploring identity, relationships, spirituality, and the erotic — how they collide, how they blur, how they shape the ways we see ourselves and each other. My art is a record of that exploration, a way of making sense of what I’ve lived and what I’ve studied.