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Artist Statement

My work begins in the quiet memories where language and time falter: scuffs on the sole of a shoe, a dent in a mattress, a fingerprint impressed in an old makeup palette. These worn, often unremarkable objects hold the emotional residue of their user, just as my paint holds to the canvas. They become relics: proof of feelings once felt and lives once lived. I am drawn to intimate and intrinsically feminine spaces in the corners of domestic life where vulnerability settles like dust. My paintings dwell in the brief and ephemeral suspension between past and future, giving form to what might otherwise vanish.

Oil paint allows me to slow time, to hold a moment and give it weight. The layered, durational nature of the medium mirrors the way memory slips and resurfaces. It allows a moment to expand long after it has passed. In the studio, I approach painting as a form of emotional archeology-- an excavation of a feeling through formal technique, deep contemplation and the slow accumulation of touch. Each brushstroke becomes a tender act of suspension. I move closely, face-to-face with the surface, until the boundary between object and emotion blurs. What emerges is not simply anatomy, but a trace held in materials shaped by touch, memory, and time.

My paintings demand the same existential posture with which they were made. A lingering feeling produces an intense stillness that offers the artist and the viewer a cathartic release. I grapple with entities that cannot be expressed with words, like the ungraspable smell of my mothers hair or the atmosphere of a bedroom stained by last night's affairs. My paintings hold that afterthought where time bends, and only our imprint remains.