My work investigates how personal myth and emotional memory shape perception—inviting

viewers to encounter familiar emotional states through unfamiliar, yet representational forms. I use emotional metaphors that reach beyond the bright colors or tiny details in this whimsical, melancholic style. My work begins with an emotional proposition: experience, nostalgia, and aspirations coming to life through gesture, movement, and symbolic character.

I work with a range of mediums from oil painting to bronze casting and glass blowing that emphasize flowing and dynamic movements. Water, tails, flowers, and flowing forms all often bend into a translation of emotion. The foundation of my work is deeply rooted in the trauma I experienced throughout my adolescence and into adulthood. My high school art teacher introduced me to a whole new world of expression and quite literally saved my life in 2018. In my adult years, the journey of healing really baffled me and inspired me, pushing my work toward deeper emotional inquiry. The Kitsune is a repeating entity among my work that emphasizes the theme of grasping for humanity or mortality. This figure represents the duality between benevolence and mischief, transformation and stability, appearance and reality. These layered dualities are central to kitsune stories across many regions and periods- a wonderful motif for exploring ambiguity, contradiction, and emotional complexity.