stillness
This portfolio explores moments of stillness in everyday life and the inner imagination, focusing on how emotions, memories, and growth take shape over time.
In these works, quiet lived moments and imagined spaces come together to reflect youthful imagination, personal growth, responsibility, and transition. Some works emerge from observation, while others grow from internal reflection and dreams.
Across both, it is on stillness rather than momentum, and a subtle shift rather than a dramatic change. By slowing these moments down, it creates a sense of recognition and connection, inviting viewers to recognize, linger with, and find meaning in their own inner and shared experiences.
iNNER BLOOM
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
Personal growth unfolds as an internal process shaped by struggle and renewal. Organic forms emerge from the figure’s head, suggesting thoughts, emotions, and experiences taking root over time.
The contrast between dense foliage and calm facial expression reflects the balance between inner complexity and outward stillness. Rather than portraying growth as effortless, Inner Bloom presents it as gradual and layered, where resilience develops quietly as life continues.
blissful youth
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
This painting explores youth as a period shaped by both joy and emotional weight. The figure’s upward gaze conveys openness and quiet resilience, while layered colors and shifting forms reflect how memories and emotions overlap rather than resolve cleanly.
Warm tones suggest vitality and sensitivity, while fragmented areas hint at uncertainty and change. Rather than idealizing youth, the work presents it as a state of becoming, where growth emerges through vulnerability, reflection, and transition.
blooming dreams
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
A figure emerges beneath dense foliage, eyes closed, suspended between growth and uncertainty. The layered forms suggest thoughts and dreams accumulating, shaping identity from within.
the strand
2025
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 24 x 18 in.
Twisting our braids was a daily ritual I shared with my twin sister, a quiet gesture of closeness and familiarity. While our bond remains central to who I am, this work reflects the gradual shift as I begin to form an identity and sense of womanhood independent of her.
innocenCe
2025
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 in.
Care and responsibility quietly reshape innocence. As the figure holds and protects the rabbits, her expression shifts from tenderness to seriousness, reflecting the growing weight of emotional responsibility.
The work draws on the observation that love can be both nurturing and demanding, especially as one becomes more aware of what it means to protect something fragile.
water flows
2025
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
After the shower ends, the water stops, but its traces remain on the body and linger in thought. The figure sits in a moment of stillness, caught between movement and rest.
In this brief pause, attention returns to the self, and small, ordinary sensations rise to awareness, marking the transition from private reflection back into daily life.
rush
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Physical intensity and mental focus converge in this moment of motion. Though the figure moves forcefully, the posture and expression convey control, discipline, and concentration rather than chaos.
Rather than portraying exertion as frantic, Rush highlights how sustained effort and repetition can sharpen awareness and produce a quiet calm.
seven irons
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
This painting draws from my experience with golf as both a discipline and a source of quiet pressure. The overlapping forms reflect the mental focus required to balance control, expectation, and repetition.
Rather than depicting a specific moment, the work captures the tension between precision and self-doubt that accompanies performance and personal standards.
virtual extinction
2025
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
This work examines evolution by placing human technological progress alongside animal ecological time. The figure wearing a VR headset represents an attempt to digitally return to the past, while the mammoth and elephant symbolize biological memory and origin.
While technology enables humans to simulate the past, animals represent time through their real, physical existence. The painting contrasts simulated experience with lived history, questioning what is preserved through technology and what is lost through extinction.
plastic horizon
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
A child crouches along a familiar coastline, calmly handling discarded plastic bottles. The stillness contrasts with the surrounding waste, suggesting that pollution has become woven into everyday coastal life rather than standing out as an exception.
Instead of highlighting a dramatic incident, Plastic Horizon draws attention to normalization, how environmental damage quietly enters ordinary spaces and shapes the world inherited by the next generation.
CONSTRUCTING MYSELF
2025
Mixed media sculpture, 18 x 12 x 20 in.
This sculpture examines identity as something gradually formed through accumulation, change, and erosion. The figure is built from everyday and organic materials that show signs of wear and fragility, emphasizing how the self is shaped over time rather than created all at once.
Elements of growth and decay coexist in the piece, reflecting how memory, environment, and experience continuously alter identity. The work suggests that formation and loss are inseparable parts of becoming.
silent drapery
2025
Charcoal on paper, 24 x 18 in.
This drawing examines the natural folds and weight of organic forms arranged in stillness. Through close observation, the work focuses on how light, shadow, and texture create structure and movement within a static composition.
In their stillness, the layered forms resemble drapery, holding shape and meaning through silence and weight.
two more minutes
2025
Charcoal on paper, 30 x 24 in.
It is jammed. This drawing captures a moment of physical closeness and shared fatigue inside a crowded train. The compressed figures and confined space emphasize the quiet tension of waiting, when time feels slowed and personal boundaries dissolve.
The work reflects the collective stillness of everyday moments, where brief discomfort is endured through silence and routine.
a pause in transit
2025
Charcoal on paper, 30 x 24 in.
The subway becomes a place where social roles temporarily dissolve. In this moment, the figures are removed from the city’s rhythm and noise, existing in a brief pause within life’s larger structure.
Closed eyes and resting postures suggest fatigue and emotional weight shared by all.
early exposure
2025
Charcoal and psstel on paper, 24 x 24 in.
This drawing presents a baby holding a Coca-Cola bottle, replacing a familiar object of care with a commercial product. The contrast draws attention to how branding and consumption can enter life before awareness or choice is possible.
Rather than making a direct statement, the work invites reflection on how desire, identity, and influence are formed at an early stage, often without conscious consent.
out of reach
2025
Charcoal on paper, 24 x 18 in.
A baby reaches upward toward suspended game controllers, grasping just beyond reach. The exaggerated gesture and open expression emphasize instinctive desire rather than understanding.
By positioning objects of play and technology above the child, Out of Reach reflects how attraction and longing can precede comprehension, suggesting an early encounter with influence in a mediated environment.
a needle and tHread
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in.
Growing up as a twin shaped a closeness defined by shared space, routines, and memories. Buttons and stitched elements connect the figures, referencing experiences formed side by side and the intimacy of being constantly paired.
Within that closeness, memory does not stay the same. Small differences in expression and posture reveal how shared moments are felt and remembered differently, allowing individual identities to take shape within a common past.