ARTIST STATEMENT

Artist Statement

I create from the intersection of memory, politics, and the body. My practice is rooted in lived experience, but it also reaches outward—to collective histories, to inherited wounds, to the fragility and strength that exist within communities. Working through painting, movement, text, and public art, I explore the ways trauma is carried, how it transforms, and how healing becomes a shared, ongoing process. Much of my work begins with observing everyday gestures: the pauses, silences, and emotional fragments that often go unnoticed. These become openings for examining larger structures of power—gendered violence, migration, displacement, and the search for belonging. Through color, texture, movement, and narrative, I try to make visible what is often unspoken. I approach my art as both a personal practice and a communal one. Collaboration, accessibility, and dialogue are central to my process. I am interested in how art can hold complexity, create care, and open space for resistance, imagination, and transformation.