Every artist is a mother. For me, creating art is an intimate and feminine act, and my relationship to my work is rooted in both tenderness and pain. Focused on the visceral acts of creation and destruction, I explore the blurry spaces between pain and pleasure, passion and hunger, horror and delight. Through my interdisciplinary practice of painting, drawing, fiber, sculpture, and mixed media, I build a world where femininity, queerness, desire, and violence find form through the grotesque and the beautiful.
Bodies live as vessels of memory and identity. In representing images of the body, I consider how internal pain and memory can be externally expressed in blood or flesh. I’m curious about merging paint, fiber, and mixed media materials into corporeal forms, treating the artwork as its own body and the surface as skin. My current process involves painting on nontraditional surfaces like muslin and secondhand bedsheets and incorporating embroidery on these painted fabrics. Through embroidery, the repetitive act of stabbing the surface inspects the vulnerability of skin and temporality of wounds.
I choose these materials to bridge craft and fine arts, in an attempt to examine softness, delicacy, and the legacy of fiber in relation to women’s labor. Grappling with control, I guide my materials with a highly intentional and meticulous approach that heightens the tension throughout my artwork. I call attention to the fuzzy edges of power and consent, focusing on the human gaze and the responsibility of viewership. Within this framework, I often question how female bodies—especially queer women of color and Asian American women—exhibit the weight of exploitation and reclamation. My work sits on the margins of discomfort, forcing a confrontation of how perception reshapes narrative.
Ultimately, my work is about carving space for the complexities of intimacy and the human condition. Creation allows me to nourish those who desire and suffer quietly, amplifying and inscribing their existence.