The work
My paintings explore what happens when we stop avoiding difficult internal experiences--when we stay with discomfort instead of pushing it down. Suppressing thoughts, emotions, or memories can feel safe, but often leads to disconnection and rigidity. I'm drawn to that in-between space where something is surfacing, shifting, or starting to unravel.

Visual language
Most of my work centers on fragmented, expressive figures. Faces are often left incomplete, eyes obscured in some way, features distorted or covered by heavy marks. There’s a push-pull between structure and gesture, restraint and rawness. I’m drawn to moments that feel unresolved--where the painting is clearly in process but not polished. That visual friction mirrors my work’s themes: uncertainty, vulnerability, staying present with what we’d rather look away from.

Process
My process is instinctive. I might sketch a loose idea or take a work-in-progress to a computer to play with ideas digitally, but most of it happens in real time. I follow what the work asks for. That uncertainty--of not knowing what an individual painting will become but still working towards a whole--is part of the point.

Context
Avoidance isn't just personal--it's everywhere. In a culture built around distraction and performative certainty, I want to make space for something slower, perhaps confrontational. This work is about staying with things we’re usually told to move past.

Background
My background is in programming, UX research, and systems-thinking. I’ve spent years doing research-heavy digital work--asking questions, analyzing pain points, figuring out what people actually need. That mindset still shapes how I paint: intentional, outcome-aware. But the studio gives me something else: space to be with uncertainty, not solve it.