My work examines sociopolitical confinement and immobility through the visual and material exploration of painting. These concerns are influenced by my ongoing experience of immigration and the social constructs of gender that control and limit my social and physical mobility. Using references to architectural barriers and silhouettes of bodies, I create spaces that function as both entrances and escapes. Cut-outs, tears, frays, and threads of canvas unravel and spill outward from the fixed and bounded picture plane, allowing physical and visual spaces to clash, merge, and blend.