About My Work 

My work is rooted in the tension between the familiar and the absurd. I pull from the visual language of cartoons, pop culture, and modern everyday American culture because these images shape how we learn to see ourselves before we even realize it. By exaggerating, distorting, and reimagining the imagery where I see fit, I create worlds where humor, chaos, and truth sit side by side. What looks playful at first glance becomes a mirror—reflecting the contradictions of identity, performance, and the culture we move through.

I use satire as a way to tell the truth. Where at times it may appear gently and sometimes not gently at all.It’s just how I function in society as a whole. The figures in my work are intentionally exaggerated: characters with big expressions, loud colors, and impossible proportions. They operate as avatars of self-reflection—versions of myself, versions of people I’ve encountered, or versions of society that feel too loud to ignore. In their distortion, I find honesty. In their humor, I find critique.

My practice merges abstraction with narrative figuration, allowing each piece to hold both emotion and analysis. Through oil paints, acrylics, colored pencils, pastels, and graphite, I layer textures and symbols that invite viewers into a space that feels nostalgic yet unsettling. The worlds I build are not escapes—they are confrontations. They ask us to reflect upon and to question to who we are, what we internalize.

Ultimately, my work is about reclaiming perspective: taking the images that have shaped me and reshaping them on my own terms. Through my personal narritives, I want viewers to pause inside the tension between innocence and critique, beauty and satire, humor and heaviness and recognize something about themselves, their world, or the stories they’ve been told.