I paint to come home to myself.

These works were born from a rupture and a reclamation — a passage through fracture into a steady, farmiliar light. Each surface became a field in which memory, ache, and possibility converged. My hand moves with broad strokes that clear space. Color tended toward insistence off the full spectrum, and all at once, a language that words could not carry.

The paintings are neither narrative nor confession, but rather maps of my authentic and real recovery. They hold the shadow without being consumed by it; they are loyal to the light. Spiritual undercurrents move through the compositions—gestures toward ritual, expression and renewal, my calligraphy of shameful light. I aim for works that are expressive, authentic and free. These pieces are offerings of my absolute presence: a witness of my own survival, an embodiment of my ‘self’ regrown.

Trauma to Triumph — Body of Work (2021–2025)

This body of work charts a four-year emergence of self, made during and shortly after a period of profound pain, clarity and ultimate transformation. The collection is dominated by large-scale canvases, their dimensions chosen to allow breathing room for full and expressive gestures and for painting with my whole body. The paint is applied with both intent and full and complete abandon — sweeping arm movements, scraped textures, and layered pigments that both conceal and reveal the all.

Color and brushstrokes are the primary narrators here. Deep indigos and earthen umbers underlay ribbons of saffron, rose, and celadon; unexpected chromatic harmonies gather at the edges of abrasion and repair. In places, oil pastels call attention to an immediate, tactile urge; elsewhere, the slow build of oil invites patient light that changes with the hour. The strong and bold brushstrokes are evident of my soul’s scream to be acknowledged — my truest self screaming to the surface.

The ‘surface’ bearing deep personal memory — scars of scraping and reapplication, luminous washes that refract. Some paintings present concentrated centers of motion; others spread a steady field of attentiveness. Across the series there is a rhythm of leaving and returning, messily and haphazardly making room and of reasserting presence, and color, always every color matters. Spirituality here is not prescribed belief but lived practice: a habitual turning toward what sustains, a devotion enacted by color, touch, and scale. An embodiment of every color of my soul is reflected in this work.

As original works that hold both force and restraint, these pieces offer a rare blend of expressive authentic vitality and contemplative, painful stillness. They embody both the light and the dark of the human soul. They ask to be experienced in person, where scale can be felt, texture observed, and the shifting life of pigment is revealed.