“My practice centers lived experience and community-based storytelling as sites of knowledge, with particular attention to underrepresented and diasporic identities. Grounded in my own intersectional experiences, my work engages questions of embodiment, cultural memory, liminality, and belonging.I approach painting as a form of world-building, where the sacred and the terrestrial are not opposing realms but continuous and entangled states of being. Through patterns, cultural motifs, and saturated color, I construct visual environments that hold both intimacy and tension, drawing the viewer into spaces shaped by layered histories and lived realities.Motifs of liminality, the geography of bodies and place, and esoteric visual language remain central to my practice. My paintings explore bodies that are overtly politicized and negotiating autonomy, alongside mythological figures and marginalized forms that exist at the edges of dominant narratives. In this way, I examine how identity is shaped, destabilized, and reconstituted across cultural, spatial, and psychic boundaries.Underlying my work is a commitment to expanding how we see and relate to one another. By centering lived experience and storytelling, I aim to open space for dialogue while holding the belief that collective liberation begins with recognizing and restoring individual self-sovereignty.”