There is a realm that painting has moved me to, and, in the same motion, it’s unearthed a process of self-examination in the form of imagined worlds and mysterious creatures. While navigating through my internal landscape, the otherworldly vistas I paint have become reflections of my relationship with myself in the same way that they have exposed the fear and angst I hold for what is to be uncovered. I've been able to witness my questions change from interrogations of the physical and social aspects of being alive to more abstract ideas of being. 

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I've been thinking about transitional spaces as I've begun to insert my identity as a queer and gender-nonconforming person into my art. As I paint these imagined worlds, I've started asking myself what it looks like to go through change and to accept or resist that change. In these cosmic landscapes, I stand at the edge, tentatively moving toward the threshold that divides this world from an imagined space. "Can I be here?" I ask, "Can I have this? Is this a place I want to voyage through?" I've found myself exploring the uncertainty that exists in the in-between dimensions and discovering the creatures and entities that take residence within them. 

Currently, my work explores the ritualistic practice of mining through my individual and collective identities, a process of reckoning and destroying, abstracting and imagining, and birthing myself over and over again. I’m interested in the act of “becoming” as an eternal practice through painting and in exploring how painting itself has become my spiritual landscape. I’ve found solace in allowing myself to show up in different ways in my work, which resulted in a shift from realistic representations to idealized bodies, even non-bodies, and godly beings.