Through painting I challenge archetypes of femininity and question expectations surrounding care, strength, and martyrdom. I reimagine familial stories, biblical folklore, and classic tropes of the hero, villain, and damsel through technicolor avatars and multilayered fields of light. By creating my own mythological taxonomy, I invite the viewer to indulge in fantasy as a way of grappling with interpersonal dynamics.

As a worldbuilder with a background in set painting, I often imbue the work with a sense of theatricality. Although these figures are bathed in dramatic and heavenly light, they are anything but spotlight seeking or “divinely feminine.” They are tired, balding, jealous, resentful, and cowering with inescapable embarrassment. At times they are emboldened as celestial bodies, weightlessly orbiting one another, only to relish in the freedom of disappearing into thin air. These paintings serve as portals to self-perception, self-preservation, and an exploration in the otherworldliness of humankind itself.