To deeply know something or someone outside of yourself is intimate. Knowing requires you to put yourself aside and engage with the realities of another world through curiosity, intentional listening, and an openness to ideas that may be antithetical to your worldview or lived experience. I am interested in the minute details of a body moving in space, the specificity of how paint dries based on what’s underneath it, the alchemy of combining logistically incompatible art materials, and the multifaceted nuance of human emotion.

The desire for knowledge and understanding is a bid for intimacy with the people in my life and the environments I occupy. Intimacy appears in my work through the forms I use, how they’re assembled compositionally, and how I apply paint to surfaces. Unprimed canvases soaked with translucent layers of paint create a worn-in softness, while forms with rounded edges slope gently towards each other. My paintings are opportunities to experience tenderness with the physical world while exploring the visual language of intimacy and softness.