December 2024 - March 2025
Oil, dirt, hair, and impasto medium on cradled panel


As I have grown in trusting my intuition, I no longer strive to appease the ideals from my past that felt disingenuous to my faith and internal morals. I have learned that I am someone I can trust during difficult situations. These pieces begin with memories represented by found objects from points in life that either encouraged or discouraged me to follow the insight I had gained through life experiences.
The warm-toned paintings refer to the subconscious advances within my mind, guiding me to where I felt most like myself. These pieces are meant to aggressively draw you in through the vibrant oranges and reds, similar to how my own realizations popped out as I began trusting myself more. Strokes of blue throughout the pieces serve as the consistent reminders that come about from anxieties linked to the past. 
The cool-toned pieces refer to memories of experiences that hindered my growth, and worked like a murky pond, pulling me back to older habits and patterns. While calming, the blues and greens kept me almost sedated as I worked through them. This refers to how I allowed for fears to impede my decisions prior to finding trust in myself. The pops of pink serve as references to the glimmers of trust brought by points in life where I started noticing the consistency I could find within myself. 
While this collection was primarily an exploration of my own maturation, it is also a practice of releasing past ideals within my own artistic practices. I want the viewer to contemplate finding their own intuitive inspirations, ultimately learning to “trust their gut” in their own interpretation of the piece, as I have through the joys and trials of life.