LIFE IS ART
A decade ago, I chose to step away from outward creation. Not because inspiration was lacking, but because I was called inward.
I raised a child, dove into my own healing, and built brands for others while silently navigating layered losses that forever altered my sense of trust and connection.
Born into a religious cult, I grappled with the skewed narratives about gender, identity, and worth that had been ingrained from birth. Patriarchal conditioning twisted and silenced my voice, distorting my sense of self and my place in the world.
The loss of perceived identity, my father and other loved ones, a solo show stolen, betrayals, failed relationships, businesses, and fractured community, unveiled how fragile even the strongest bonds can be under the weight of grief, inherited narratives, and societal expectations.
These layered ruptures and losses of my work, community, and closest confidants pushed me into a space of silence, profound reflection, and surrender.
My art is rooted in the understanding that trauma, inheritance, and vulnerability reside within our bodies, shaping us in sometimes silent yet profound ways. We observe chaos and attempt to contain it or transmute it.
Life is art and alchemy.
Inspired by the cycles of nature and the relentless dance of birth and decay, light and shadow, chaos and order, I explore the thresholds of transition where transformation quietly takes place. These liminal moments of coming undone and reassembling reveal the deepest forms of beauty and resilience.
I learned that resilience resides in the web of fractures hidden within shadows cast by grief and legacy. Spaces where hope quietly persists. The experience of dismantling the conditioned self opened a doorway to reclaiming my voice, reconnecting with my true self beyond inherited and self-imposed limitations.
My practice now explores these paradoxes: visual meditations on presence and overwhelm, representations of the body and environment’s responses, cellular, spiritual, and sacred acts of reconstructing differently.
Grounded in the understanding that trauma lives within us, manifesting in the cellular, spiritual, and ancestral realms, directing its own chaos while we attempt to contain it, my work sits at the intersection of science and soul.
I am interested in the full scope of self and what it means to be present here and now. The measurable and the mystical, the wordless knowing and the complex stories the body, collective, and earth hold.
Each piece in every body of work is a recognition and fragment of a larger, unfolding story. Crafted with intention to challenge perception, foster honest dialogue, and honor the quiet strength that endures through loss, inherited narratives, and conditioned identities.
To engage with these collections is to witness a voice reclaimed and the honest testament that even in rupture and disillusionment, beauty and resilience quietly emerge.
This is art for anyone who has ever felt too much, navigated the gap between who they were and who they are becoming, and believes that true beauty is found within our fractures and in the act of becoming anew.
Life is ART.