My work is about resilience and using one’s imagination to heal, survive, and ultimately thrive. I utilize perceived limitations to fuel creation, taking up space and alchemizing the room's energy from disempowerment to empowerment. I find inspiration in overcoming the childhood adversity that shaped my behavior and paradigms reflected in my life today.

By incorporating energy work and Eastern philosophy, I discovered art as a meditation ritual, reaching a state of an almost trance-like movement in creating my paintings. I explore the body as a communication vehicle channeling generational guidance from my ancestors and intuition. At times I work with clusters of paintings, each with a quiet intensity, representing the many lifetimes I’ve lived and the varied incarnations of the same soul.

The paintings are layered with numerous cathartic motions. Pouring paint, smoothing, scraping, and folding the canvas creates a ghost-like gesture as if the spirit is coming through the work. The purification repeatedly continues until a feeling of peace overcomes my body, and all feels complete.

What began as a journey of survival has evolved into creating an identity through a visual expression that transcends race, gender, and box to check on the national census.