About
artist statement
we don't just Feel emotions;
we inhabit them.
To be human is to move through a shifting internal terrain—a landscape shaped by memory, longing, rupture, and resilience. My work gives form to these inner landscapes, translating emotional experience into tangible color, scale, and texture.
I do not paint shapes or weave objects; I build environments. Across painting and woven pieces, my practice explores emotional volume—how a work of art can function as a psychological space, a visceral site designed to be entered and felt. Each surface becomes a space of creative excavation, where the superficial is stripped away to reveal the raw, dramatic pulse beneath.
In my paintings, light and shadow act as primary building materials, forming atmospheric volumes that serve as thresholds for sensations we often carry in silence. In my woven works, I cut and interlace existing paintings, binding distinct visual environments into a single, inextricable structure. Through this process of rupture and integration, fragmented inner states are held in sustained relationship, forming textural frameworks capable of holding complex experience.
Ultimately, my work is an act of mapping the collective soul. While these inquiries begin with the personal, they reach toward the universal. Each piece invites the viewer to slow down, stand within a feeling, and recognize the profound reality of being alive.
From Experience to Expression
background & inquiry
My creative inquiry exists at the intersection of environment and the human psyche. With a background in Architecture (B.Arch), I spent years studying how space, proportion, and light shape human behavior. This architectural rigor remains the structural backbone of my work, informing how I approach each surface as a site of intentional exploration.
A profound shift in my inquiry led me toward Psychology (M.A.), where my focus moved from the external structures we inhabit to the internal frameworks that inhabit us. My understanding of the unconscious—how we navigate memory, trauma, identity, and integration—now shapes the emotional landscape of my practice.
Today, my studio work is the synthesis of these disciplines. By merging spatial construction with psychological inquiry, I create environments that bridge the physical and the intangible. I see art as a vital tool for integration: a place where internal landscapes can be inhabited, held, and understood as part of a larger, shared human experience.