I bet on losing dogs.

Mixed Media. 2024.

Throughout becoming a young adult, transitioning from child to woman, I have realized that life moves on no matter what happens. Not for a moment does it stop. It’s overwhelming and with that reality, comes loss.

We feel this loss as we grow older and enter new stages of our life; loss on what could have been or what had happened.

I was so moved by this immense feeling of loss that I decided to create a series of large-scale paintings to explore how the materiality of paint and color can bring about such feelings for the viewer, so that they too may relate and gain healing from the awareness that they are not alone in adversity.

basically, I might not be weak
Oil Paint
18” x 24”
2025

i don’t need nothing
Oil Paint
20” x 20”
2025

basically, i might be used to this
Gouache and Pastels
40” x 30”
2025

give me something i’m lacking
Oil Paint
12” x 12”
2025

who’s praying for me?
Oil Paint
58” x 66”
2024

when you talk, all i hear is silence
Oil Paint
57” x 42”
2024

ain’t nobody praying.
Oil Paint
40” x 42”
2024

didn’t you know?
Gouache and Soft Pastels
25” x 20”
Motif of dogs repeating through works, meaning is deeply personal
2024

look to me, it’s no surprise
Gouache
30” x 24”
Exploring how the creation of art can heal childhood trauma
2024

leave all your loving behind you can’t carry it with you if you want to survive
Oil Paint
54” x 72”
Homage to old childhood home
2024

Sometimes I take all the shine, talk like I drank all the wine
Oil Paint
36” x 52”
Exploring childhood trauma with parental figures
2024