I love when beauty misbehaves—when bright colors and dreamy scenes carry a quiet, unsettling tension. Symbolism plays a big role in my work. I’m often haunted by figures that won’t leave me alone until I paint them.

Art is how I process the world. It’s less a choice than an instinct. My paintings are emotional snapshots, glimpses of an inner world that’s raw, sometimes uncomfortable, but very much alive.

Making this work has become a form of resistance. It gives me space to exist freely—emotional, feminine, contradictory—and to take up space without apology.

Since leaving the U.S. to live in Australia with my partner, the idea of refuge has become central to my practice. In a time of political unrest, I see honoring emotion, softness, and complexity as its own kind of rebellion.

This is where I let the things that haunt me speak.