Fine Art
painting | sculpture | installation
In pursuit of mediums that can capture fleeting moments of intense saudade, I experiment with watercolor, colored pencil, ink, acrylic, oil pastel, gouache, gel pen, and mixed media.
My most recent works explore the rich consciousness of the natural world,
invoking concepts of balance, chaos, coexistence, and reparation.
recent work
pink paradise
A piece inspired by the tranquil landscapes of Japanese traditional gardens.
Everything in this painting is alive, from the moss, to the heron, to the petals, to the water.
A Letter to the Colonizers
This painting draws upon the Japanese practices of daisugi, meaning platform cedar, and kintsugi, meaning gold seams.
Daisugi, a horticultural technique that involves pruning tree branches to create straight shoots, enables lumber harvest without chopping down a mother cedar tree. Kintsugi, a traditional repair method, entails sealing broken pieces of pottery together with a Japanese lacquer and illuminating the cracks with gold powder.
We must never forget that we are all connected, bounded by our Earthly threads; no tree grows freely from its roots steeped in nightmarish violence.
feminine masculinity | 2023
blessed rain | 2021
sublimity | 2021
beauty in entropy | 2020
sympatheia | 2022
sea in the sky | 2023
per aspera ad astra | 2020
web of memories | 2020
paintings
sculpture
dream machine | 2022
hi fish bye | 2021
seen betta days | 2021
installation
"in the studio" | 2022
mural
I had the honor of designing and painting the 2022 senior class wall for my high school. As the Senior Sharks, we decided on an underwater theme, which I first sketched in Procreate. From then, I led a team of peers to paint our wall of over 20 feet long.
pockets of time | 2021
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