I have always felt a tension between opposing ways of being—impulsive and analytical, structured and spontaneous, critical and uncertain, independent and shaped by the world around me. That contradiction is a starting point for my work.

I am interested in the boundaries we create to make sense of things: right and wrong, true and false, masculine and feminine, beautiful and disturbing, finished and unfinished. The more closely I examine these categories, the less fixed they become. I am drawn to what happens when a boundary is stretched, when a spectrum folds back into itself, or when something is defined so completely that its meaning begins to dissolve.

My work develops intuitively through layering, obscuring, scraping, drawing, painting, collage, and interruption. Recognizable imagery, text, symbols, found objects, and everyday fragments can emerge within abstraction without settling into a single meaning. A piece is rarely truly finished; I allow it to remain open to another mark, another layer, another possibility.

I return to identity, sexuality, feminism, oppression, mental health, childhood, nostalgia, memory, emotion, environment, and nothingness—not as separate subjects, but as overlapping experiences shaped by both the individual and the world around them. I am equally interested in the contradiction between the seemingly infinite nature of existence and the fleeting nature of living.

Working across acrylic, oil, encaustic, pastel, ink, collage, drawing, sculpture, and found materials, I follow what each work requires rather than a fixed medium or visual language.