My paintings combine incongruous parts into composite figures: forms shift between bodies, patterns interrupt anatomy, and recognizable elements operate in unexpected ways depending on their surroundings. More recent collages extend this process by cutting apart and recombining completed paintings. A feature or gesture that once belonged to one image becomes material for another. Across both manifestations of my work, amalgam forms resist fixed identities.

I'm drawn to the gap between what we experience and how we understand it. Grounded in cognitive psychology and mindfulness, I explore how perception, context, and attention transform ambiguity into meaning. My work exploits our tendency to assemble approximate, substituted, and contradictory visual information into coherent wholes.

My experience of queerness — where authority fractures, purpose is self-determined, and inconclusiveness is inevitable — has made me attuned to reality as something constructed rather than absolute. It has freed me from the expectation that there is a single inherited way to understand myself or the world, and from the need to justify my existence according to one. I use playful invention as an existential strategy to navigate the joy and ambivalence of queer life.