"My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires." ~Hazrat Inayat Khan

My artwork is a manifestation of personal and global concerns that create inner conflict between feelings of hope and despair. Art offers me a way to gain agency over this emotional struggle by allowing me to explore the space of contrast between the opposing attitudes. Nature and our place within it is a recurring theme in my work because it is a subject where the dichotomy of my emotions and concerns plays out in real-time.
I use aesthetics of mood and illusion to convey the inner conflict and struggle to maintain a ray of hope. The resulting images are a construct of the world I see filtered through my state of being while confronting and processing these concerns. The work offers a moment of consideration and reflection in a world that can feel both overwhelming and inspiring. 

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