My practice lives at the intersection of fashion and fine art — two worlds that define and contest the value of image. Coming from fashion, where beauty and image were the language, I later entered a field that often resists beauty. That friction — between allure and intellect, surface and depth — is where my work lives now.
I’m drawn to the opposing codes of these spaces: one built on visibility, desire, and commerce; the other on intellect, restraint, and permanence. My work moves through the tension between them, exploring how beauty and credibility are constructed, traded, and undone.
Through painting, I examine what happens when the language of glamour enters a space that demands seriousness — and when introspection begins to inhabit the surface. The figures I paint exist within this collision: staged yet sincere, aware of their own presentation yet reaching for something private.
I’m less interested in representation than in perception itself — in how the gaze circulates between subject and viewer, and how aesthetics can both reveal and obscure truth. My paintings look for a place where allure, intellect, and emotion can coexist without hierarchy.