Childhood is a fragile concept, and living through it you must be treated gently to nurture and cultivate a healthy human. I find it fascinating how the smallest interactions can be so big to a child, completely changing and directing the course to adulthood. In my current body of work I explore childhood trauma, more specifically my own, through depicting manifestations of day dreams. Navigating this concept has been a recent project of mine, difficult of course, but rewarding. Creating work is like that of a coping mechanism, and also a means to process my childhood trauma. I see painting my maladaptive daydreams as a way of investigation, discovering their connections to my past and present. 

A majority of my work is made up of paintings that I would describe as physical manifestations of my dreaming, or snap-shots to what I see versus reality. It’s important to note that not all my paintings are exact one to one images of my day dreams but also imitations, and more so I am creating images that exude the same feeling when I dream. Aesthetically my work conveys a dream-like quality.  I am to portray mesmerizing paintings that are dreamy, ominous, and poetic.

I would like to add that I include a narrative element and written quality in each artist 's statement to further immerse the audience into the convoluted storytelling. I hope to continue this way of making and body of work, but I also plan to move away from it at some point as a way to end the story and tell the audience that I have also moved on from the past finally.