Artwork

I work in mixed media, drawn to the language of layers and texture. My process is intuitive and nonlinear—built through collage, paint, found materials, and mark-making that accumulate into visual narratives. I’m interested in what happens when surfaces hold memory, when fragments of the past collide with the present.

Much of my work is influenced by my childhood in the 1980s and youth in the 1990s—an era of analog rituals, mixtapes, paper ephemera, mall culture, and handmade self-expression. These references appear as visual echoes: saturated color, playful symbolism, nostalgic textures. But the work is not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. Instead, it’s about reclaiming and celebrating the joy, creativity, and emotional landscape of girlhood. In a world that often encourages speed, polish, and digital perfection, returning to tactile materials and analog memory becomes its own form of resistance. My work honors the messy, layered, nonlinear ways girls imagine themselves and their worlds.

Ironically, this nonlinear instinct revealed itself early. During my sophomore year of high school, I received a failure warning in art—my only academic warning ever—because I refused to complete traditional value and color studies in my advanced watercolor class. My parents were stunned. How could their teenage artist daughter, capable of technically strong paintings, be on the brink of failing art? Looking back, the moment feels prophetic. It was an early glimpse of an artist who would always resist rigid systems and instead embrace experimentation, abstraction, and intuition.

My work continues that trajectory—honoring layers, celebrating memory, and creating spaces where the spirit of girlhood, play, and analog creativity can live unapologetically. We are layered and textured beings. There is richness and sparkle especially in the mess and grit. We can create our own processes and ways of working that suit us best.