Series
The work comes in series. Painting in groups is how the practice moves: a body of work opens a space, and the pieces inside it speak to one another.
Given
Some things reach us before any choice. Where you're from. Who you belong to. The face, the name, the role you're dressed in before you could want one. What's given can't be undone – it isn't a weight to set down or a question to answer. It holds us, and stays even when we're far from where it began. Each work here takes one thing that's given and leaves it unresolved: less a problem to solve than a fact to live inside.
The In-Between
Every state here holds a gap between what shows outside and what's within: same form, opposite meaning. A threshold where beginning and end look alike. A movement that could be pursuit or escape. A gesture that lets go and holds on. A stance where vulnerability and strength coincide. An emptiness that from within is the fullest thing there is. The real thing is the one you can't see. The difference lives inside – out of reach of anyone else's gaze, and sometimes your own.
The Spine
A series about inner strength that has nothing to prove. These women are tender and unyielding at the same time, and the work doesn't try to resolve that into one or the other. The softness is part of the strength, not the opposite of it.