In the current cultural and political moment, I turn to history and fantasy as guides for navigating the contradictions of contemporary life.
My paintings attempt to synthesize the conflicting demands placed on today’s youth: to accumulate wealth while protecting a fragile planet, to embrace education while carrying the burden of systemic debt, to labor tirelessly while watching artificial intelligence consume the very work we were trained to pursue. These tensions create a fractured language in which only fragments feel true. In a society that cannot stop speaking, I ask: which words are worth saying? In an image-obsessed culture, which images are worth seeing? My work searches for answers within these questions.