My work explores the intertwined relationships between humans and animals, drawing from personal interactions, fleeting moments, and ideas encountered through lived experience and research. Through painting, I investigate how our relationships with animals are shaped by notions of care, ownership, domestication, and proximity. Rather than focusing solely on histories of injustice or neglect, I aim to consider how these encounters can spark new ways of understanding and relating to the animal beyond human centered assumptions.

Process and materiality play a central role in my meaning making. I work in thin, watery layers that allow for transparency, accumulation, and transformation over time. Recently, I have begun altering my surfaces through stitching, quilting, and mending, integrating acts traditionally associated with care and repair into the paintings themselves. These physical interventions become both conceptual and emotional gestures, reflecting the complexity, vulnerability, and interconnectedness present within human and animal relationships.