My work uses color, faces, figures, and expression to translate emotion into visual form. Each painting is built around a character suspended within a single frame caught in a moment that feels unresolved. The viewer is invited to decide what happens before and after that moment. Every body of work becomes a collection of emotional fragments, telling stories that are open-ended and deeply human.

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I am interested in provoking feeling discomfort, sadness, joy, awkwardness, nostalgia, even childlike playfulness. I want the work to sit with the viewer and stir something beneath the surface. The expressions I paint are often exaggerated or distorted, pushing emotion beyond subtlety so that it becomes unavoidable. Color plays a psychological role; it carries mood as much as the figures themselves.

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My primary materials include acrylic and gouache, pen and pastel. I also create multimedia works, using whatever materials are available to bring an idea into reality. The process begins with observation. I watch how people interact with each other and with the world and I pay attention to how their emotions affect my own. Inspiration may come from something small, like the way someone’s smile bends unexpectedly on the metro, or something complex, like witnessing two people struggle interpreting their relationship with one another.

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Empathy and bearing witness guide my practice. I build surfaces through layers of paint, then erase, rework, and paint again. This layering mirrors emotional experience itself, messy, evolving, and never singular.

Ultimately, my intention is to provoke feeling, raise questions, and create space for empathy.