Ignition
A figure emerges as a charged silhouette, formed through heat, abrasion, and force. The surface carries industrial weight—pressure, friction, and residue—while the body begins to assert itself from within the burn. This work marks the beginning of a self-healing cycle, where damage becomes catalyst and endurance becomes energy. Ignition is not resolution, but activation: the first moment the self turns toward repair.
Endured
A turbulent landscape unfolds beneath a dense, shifting sky, where light presses through layers of gray and ash. The forms suggest a place shaped by repeated exposure to chaos—no longer shocking, but still heavy. This work reflects a period of learned suffering, where endurance becomes instinct and survival is quiet, practiced, and ongoing. The painting holds tension without climax, honoring the strength required to remain standing within uncertainty.
Unspoken
A solitary figure emerges from a dark, enveloping field, rendered with softened edges and restrained detail. The simplified face and obscured mouth suggest silence rather than absence, presence rather than lack. Painted during a period of working closely with nonverbal autistic children, the work reflects a shared experience of unspoken communication—where meaning resides in gaze, proximity, and patience. This piece holds space for voices that exist beyond language, emphasizing connection through witnessing rather than articulation.
Bloodline: The Lachine Massacre
Dark, sweeping strokes move across the surface like accumulated force rather than single event. The work holds ancestral trauma alongside lived experience, where historical violence and personal chaos overlap. Blood is present not as spectacle, but as lineage—carried forward through time, memory, and the body. This painting bears witness to what is inherited, survived, and endured across generations.
Becoming Still
Broad, sweeping strokes move through a subdued field of gray and shadow, suggesting weight, passage, and emotional gravity. Light appears briefly, then recedes, leaving behind traces rather than resolution. The surface holds a sense of time lost and carried—of sadness that is not dramatic, but enduring. This work inhabits the space where pain is neither resisted nor explained, only lived.
Held
A figure forms through warmth and light, defined more by presence than detail. The body leans inward, suggesting care, containment, and quiet strength. Color moves gently across the surface, carrying tenderness without fragility. This work reflects a moment of being held—by self, by another, or by something unseen—where vulnerability and safety exist together.
Still Here
A face emerges through layers of saturated color, fractured yet held. The gaze remains present even as the surface bears the weight of rupture and repair. Painted in response to a period of depression and gradual healing, this work holds suffering without spectacle. Color becomes a sustaining force—evidence of endurance, connection, and the quiet act of remaining.
At the Speed I Could Live
A solitary snail moves through a field of saturated color, held within vastness rather than overwhelmed by it. Scale and pace become acts of care—progress measured not by distance, but by presence. The work reflects a period of learning to live slowly, allowing beauty to remain visible even when movement is minimal. This painting honors patience as survival and slowness as a way of seeing.
Turning Inward
A figure bends toward itself, shaped by layered strokes of earth, green, and rust. The body curves not in collapse, but in attention—gathering, listening, conserving. The surrounding space remains active, yet the figure holds its own center. This work reflects a moment of internal turning, where strength is found through containment rather than display, and movement begins from within.
Wild Rider
A figure rides forward in stillness and resolve, merged with the body of the animal beneath her. Rendered through layered paint and gesture, the image evokes endurance, protection, and ancestral memory. The obscured face and weighted posture suggest a guardian presence—one who carries history rather than escapes it. This work explores the threshold between human and mythic, vulnerability and strength, movement and containment.
02/08/2026