Within my paintings, the natural world incarnates, curls, and swells. I move impishly through tumultuous landscapes where slick, high-chroma paint illuminates desires, indulgences, 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 mythological transformations alongside my lived experiences.

My feverish oil paintings explore the paradoxically linked feelings of intimacy and detachment that define interpersonal, ecological relationships. Familial and romantic relationships, along with the raising and burying of animals, populate my work. Moreover, experiences in competitive judo and jiu-jitsu produce 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. 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.