My work begins in discomfort. Anxiety, hesitation, and quiet instability form the emotional conditions from which each piece emerges. I am drawn to the paradox of the comfort zone, a structure that offers protection while simultaneously obstructing movement and change.

 Comfort may function as shelter for a time, but at a certain point it becomes a structure that inhibits growth. When something no longer feels comfortable, the existing state can no longer be sustained, and change becomes inevitable rather than optional. I focus on this moment of fracture and the necessity of breaking away from it. In my work, metamorphosis is not an outcome but a passage, a process of leaving one state in order to enter another. Painting, installation, and material experimentation are the means through which I move through this transition. My work attends to the body and perception as they continue without the possibility of return, resisting collapse while moving forward within change.