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Artist Statement

My work begins in the quiet memories where language and time falter-- scuffs on the soul 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 my emotion residue to the canvas. They become relics: proof of feelings once felt and lives once lived. I am drawn to intimate and intrinsically feminine spaces: corners of domestic life where vulnerability settles like dust. My paintings dwell in the brief and ephemeral suspension between past and future. They give form to what might otherwise vanish.

Oil paint allows me to slow time-- to hold a moment and give it weight. Its layered, durational nature mirrors the way memory slips and resurfaces, allowing a moment to expand long after it has passed. In the studio, I approach painting as a for 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 an image, but the lingering imprint of being.

My paintings demand slowness. For staying. For lingering like the echo of a first heartbreak or the smell of your mothers hair. For listening to the whisper of a moment caught in time’s slipstream. It is intrinsically feminine and unapologetically human. This is the romanticization of the afterthought where time bends, and only our imprint remains.