My work explores desire as a transformative force, one capable of reshaping identity, perception, and the boundaries between self and subject. I am interested in the moment when want becomes obsession, when longing begins to alter the way we understand ourselves, and when attraction begins to resemble consumption.
Working primarily through figurative painting while incorporating installation, printmaking, and wearable forms, I investigate the psychological, biological, and cultural dimensions of desire. My practice is rooted in research surrounding hyperfixation, feminine sexuality, consumption, shame, and the ways women learn to express or conceal desire. Personal experience often serves as the point of entry, but I use it to examine broader questions of femininity, power, embodiment, and self-construction.
The female body operates within my work as both subject and psychological landscape. Self-portraiture allows me to complicate the traditional relationship between artist, muse, and viewer, positioning feminine sexuality as something authored rather than observed. I am particularly interested in emotions and behaviors that have historically been characterized as excessive, irrational, obsessive, or dangerous when expressed by women, and in reclaiming them as sites of agency and inquiry.
Symbolism allows these ideas to exist somewhere between the intimate and the universal. Cherries, mouths, insects, food, clothing, and other recurring objects become metaphors for appetite, vulnerability, sexuality, violence, and consumption. Beauty and discomfort often occupy the same space. Seductive color, romantic imagery, and familiar objects invite the viewer in before revealing something more psychologically complicated beneath the surface.
Across mediums, I am ultimately interested in the contradictions contained within desire: intimacy and violence, pleasure and shame, attraction and repulsion, control and surrender. Rather than attempting to resolve these tensions, my work inhabits them. Desire is never simply something we experience. It consumes, alters, and becomes part of us.
