Statement

As an immigrant, a mother raising children in a separated family, and a woman navigating cultural displacement, social isolation, and generational conflict, I have often turned to nature as a source of perspective. Nature functions as a living framework through which I understand and reflect on human experience. The cycles of growth, decay, endurance, and renewal found in the natural world provide a way to think about the passage of time and the emotional realities of everyday life.

My paintings draw from ordinary scenes, memories, and observations of trees, water, and familiar landscapes. Rather than depicting nature as a backdrop, I use it as a parallel structure through which human emotions and experiences can be understood. I am particularly interested in moments where natural forms appear to echo states of vulnerability, resilience, loss, comfort, or transformation.

Working primarily in oil paint, I build, scrape, layer, and revise surfaces over time. These processes allow texture, material, and image to develop through accumulation and erosion, reflecting the ways experiences are shaped by memory and duration. Through painting, I explore how the material processes of oil paint can communicate emotional experience and reveal connections between human life and the natural world.