"I am deeply interested in humanity’s psychological connection with nature and the consequences our everyday actions have on the environment. Working with fragile ecosystems, I create artwork inspired by locations specific to each project, exploring themes ranging from coral bleaching and deforestation to cultural associations with the natural world. By peeling back layers-both literal and metaphorical-I challenge the idea of paradise as an external ideal, instead suggesting it is something buried within, waiting to be uncovered.

My current series explores transformation as a process of Unbecoming-shedding imposed identities, conditioned beliefs, and inherited narratives to reveal an untamed, original self. It is a cyclical pattern rather than a linear ascent. The organic, fluid textures mirror the psyche’s unraveling-beliefs, identities, and imposed narratives peeling away. I look to depict the rawness of metamorphosis-the shedding, blossoming, multiplying, contracting, rapturing, flowing, expanding, cracking, peeling, bubbling, sprouting-the exquisite discomfort of returning to the core.

I seek out shapes that feel familiar at first glance, but the longer you look, the more uncertain you become of what you're seeing. Much like the way we think we know ourselves-until we realize we don’t.

My paintings blur the boundary dividing inner and outer worlds and explore the profound similarities between the structures and insights of the human body and the organic forms found in nature. For me, this work is about transcending boundaries and recognizing the deep interconnectedness that unites us-something our increasingly divided world is longing to remember. "