Reminiscence Novelty Series (2025–Present) (Working Title)
Reminiscence Novelty explores childhood memory, nostalgia, and emotional concealment through recurring imagery of covered eyes and ears. Inspired by childhood games, familiar phrases, and sensory association, the series examines themes of vulnerability, selective perception, protection, and psychological imprint.
Balancing innocence with subtle discomfort, the work investigates how early experiences continue to shape adult identity and emotional response.
Overwhelmed Series (2019–Present)
Overwhelmed began during a period when life felt impossible to outrun. Between work, family, athletics, expectation, and the constant pressure to keep moving, I felt as though I was endlessly treading water. Just surviving, but never fully reaching shore.
The Overwhelmed series takes its title from the phrase “keeping your head above water,” using water as both metaphor and emotional landscape. The heroine drifts between visibility and disappearance: submerged, resurfacing, suspended somewhere between surrender and endurance.
These works are about the quiet violence of overwhelm: the feeling of losing clarity, breath, and direction while still forcing yourself forward. Yet within that struggle exists resilience. Even at her most submerged, the figure continues to rise.
Through water as metaphor, the works explore vulnerability, resilience, and the tension between collapse and perseverance.
This series remains one of the most intimate bodies of work within my practice.
Flowery Words Series (2017–Present)
Flowery Words began as a reaction to the pretentiousness I encountered entering the professional art world after school. I became fascinated by the way language was used as performance—overcomplicated, inflated, and often intentionally inaccessible.
There was an unspoken expectation to speak in polished theoretical language, as though intelligence could only exist through excessive vocabulary and abstraction. As someone who communicates bluntly and directly, forcing myself into that kind of speech felt unnatural, almost physically uncomfortable.
The series visualizes that discomfort. Words become excessive, spilling uncontrollably from the mouth like “word vomit.” The figures embody the tension between authenticity and performance, honesty and fabrication, clarity and manipulation.
At its core, Flowery Words critiques elitism within communication while exploring the falsehoods we tell others—and ourselves—to belong.
Flourish / Growth Series (2017–Present)
Flourish / Growth explores transformation, personal expansion, and the quiet tension between beauty and darkness. Emerging from the recurring image of “leaf necks”—a visual motif I continually return to—the series reflects the feeling of internal growth pushing outward, impossible to contain.
Within these works, heroines bloom with organic forms: green leaves, flowering branches, and expanding plant life erupt from within the figure. The body becomes both vessel and landscape, suspended in moments of elevation, movement, and release.
Directionality plays an essential role throughout the compositions. Flowing hair, floating forms, and upward-reaching organic elements create a sense of momentum and ascension, reinforcing themes of ambition, resilience, and becoming.
While the series embraces optimism more openly than other bodies of work within my practice, traces of tension remain present beneath the surface. Flourish / Growth exists within the space between vulnerability and strength, decay and renewal, darkness and beauty.
At its core, the series reflects the version of myself I strive toward: evolving, expansive, and continually moving upwards and onwards.
Other: (Variety from Gallery Shows)
