I investigate flesh through paint. I research themes of psychosomatic conflict, vulnerability, systems of collective consciousness, the multiplicities of self, and the nuances of the human condition.

My work is influenced by Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror and Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: My paintings evoke tension through multiplicities. The figures in my work disrupt conventional boundaries of the body through repetition, distortion, and scale. This visual representation of abjection reflects queer experiences of disorientation, confronting conventional expectations about the body.

I render enigmatic dualities: the dichotomy that exists between bliss and anguish or desire and disgust. Lustrous movement frozen in time perpetuates a sense of the uncanny. Multiples of the same individual in different conditions of being signifies an uncanny double, or doppelgänger. Something commonplace seen in a way that is suddenly strange: a face forming from another. Like the self, but threateningly other…What is familiar is rendered unfamiliar.

There is a slippage that transpires in painting. A place that exists in the middle of reality and illusion. Between gestural brushstrokes and enigmatic backgrounds. It is visible yet physically indefinable, intangible. My work conveys a pensive existence, a realm of the unconscious, a state of figurative fluctuation, flesh in oscillation.