Inspired by personal experience, popular culture, and black-and-white film, my work explores nostalgia, intimacy, and systems of identity through a fluid, multidisciplinary practice. I investigate how performance, memory, and gender intersect with visual language, using familiar imagery to examine the complexities of the constructed self.
My work often plays with the tension between muted grayscale tones and concentrated bursts of color. This contrast reflects the push and pull between visibility and erasure, beauty and discomfort, and control and vulnerability, particularly within feminine-coded spaces.
By recontextualizing archetypes and visual tropes, I consider how race, gender, and sexuality are perceived, internalized, and performed. Each piece functions as a kind of staging where reflection, fragmentation, and surface operate as tools for questioning social roles and emotional residue.
Ultimately, I view femininity as a shifting and layered force. It is tender but defiant, restrained yet expressive. My work invites viewers into that in-between space where identity is not about resolution but about complexity, contradiction, and transformation.
Untitled, Oil on canvas, 2024