A collection of works spanning 2022-2025.

Internal Wilderness is a series of small to medium sized acrylic paintings on canvas that feature the self as a grand subject. Through this exploration of personal anxieties relating to childhood isolation and internalized trauma, I invite the viewer to reflect on their own relationship with self.

This body of work is realized with themes of elation in solitude, perils of self-destructive behavior, and the fight to balance self-expression with internal voice. Inspirations are taken from the perceived external world; Cerebral landscapes that echo the emotional charge carried within warm blood, flesh, and bones. 

I create art to work through my insecurities with relationships, my perpetual loneliness, and spiritual elation that I’m connected to everyone in one big universal process. A critical life-long ritual. My art allows me to safely compartmentalize events of trauma in an externalized space beyond the echoing coil of my mind. Integral to the art-making practice, catharsis is primed and encrusted with sentiment to the canvas. Utilizing vulnerability to forge a connection with the viewer, two strangers share a bond over paint on canvas without ever occupying the same physical space.

Within the gallery setting, observers are lured in by a lush, verdant palette. However, once spending time with the work, the pieces unfold into multifaceted notions arriving at unease and discomfort. I liken this to presenting the mask socially versus inner expression that remains tucked behind teeth.