My paintings explore introspection, anxiety, and connection through a playful bending of space, time, and bodies. Set in claustrophobic architecture, I depict figures oscillating between stagnation and upheaval. These characters are desperate to break cycles and self-actualize, often sabotaging themselves in the process. Moments of wonder twist with apprehension in scenes that examine ideas around control and agency while capturing life’s intensity and tenderness. I am interested in the cultural tendency to obsessively turn inward when the world spins out of control. My work examines the pitfalls of this compulsion as well as the desire to connect with something beyond oneself. This results in highly organized compositions ecstatic with saturated color, rhythmic shapes, and vivid light, to evoke feelings familiar yet strange.

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