This body of work explores metaphors within a feverish terrain, where firelight and desiccation confront images of sultry abundance. The natural world curls, expands, and pulls apart from itself forming stages for symbolic acts. People, and other animals, hover and move through the brittle landscapes, exploring the various fractures and joinery between subjects and their ambitions. Passages of reality border fantasy, presented through light, color, composition, and allegory. 

The work is concerned with when things break: when fantasies of the natural world are viewed through a gluttonous lens. Lighting cites the real state of the climate, and compositions asks the viewer's relationship to the subject. The paintings ask questions through the balance between what is presented to us, and the skotia which demands consideration of what is hidden. Pulling from art history, the work alludes to the fruit and tree of Eden, Platonic metaphors, Venus’ shell, and Narcissus’s reflection pool. While rooted in classical narratives, archetypes fall apart as personal mythology narrates the complexities of desire.  

This body of work explores the symmetry between bodies, and how they hold within them representations of
love, duality, and mythology. Through various drawing and printmaking techniques, diptychs, triptychs, and reflected compositions explore relationships and draw similes. The work investigates the simultaneous intimacy and distance between individuals, and questions heterogeneity.  

Within my paintings, the natural world curls, swells, and pulls itself apart, forming stages for symbolic acts. I move impishly through tumultuous landscapes, where slick, high chroma paint illuminates my notions of love, desire, and the conflicts they contain. Thermal light licks at creatures from my milieu, as they hunt, swallow, pollinate, and trample through my childhood garden. In other works, I find myself in conversation with Narcissus, Daphne, Eve, and the Serpent, metabolizing their abiding mythological presence alongside my lived experiences. 

My feverish oil paintings explore the paradoxically linked feelings of intimacy and detachment that define interpersonal relationships and complex connections in the natural world. Gestures of intimacy, ferocity, and contemplation inquire into struggles within nature, and often within myself. Familial and romantic experiences with fractured relationships, addiction, and the raising and burying of animals populate my work. Moreover, my experiences in competitive judo and jiu jitsu over the past decade have produced critical insights into issues of gender, power, and expectation that animate my gesture and my imagery. I translate the ambition, joy, and grief of these experiences into a metaphorical language whose light, composition, and color narrate personal mythology. Influenced by the chariot metaphor in Plato’s Phaedrus, I created Charioteer / Off Leash (2025) with the various attributes of the “spirited horse” and the “unruly horse” in mind, evidenced by acts of ferocity and temperance rooted in the natural world. My work is informed by epic poetry as well as Jorge Luis Borges’ short stories, amongst other textual sources. Methodologically and linguistically, I paint to question lived experiences, literature, and art history, creating chimeras that offer tentative truths from enigmatic sources around and within me.