I am a painter and photographer whose work grows out of a long engagement with sculpture, art history, and arts education across diverse cultural contexts. My practice is process-based, shaped by layering, erasure, and restraint, allowing each surface to evolve through time rather than resolve quickly. Working within abstraction, I draw from abstract expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual traditions. I am also a writer and published author, and my visual and written work share a common inquiry into presence, silence, and the spaces where meaning is felt rather than explained. I’m interested in the tension between gesture and stillness—how texture, negative space, and chromatic weight can function as active emotional forces. My paintings do not rely on narrative; instead, they invite moments of quiet connection and introspection, allowing viewers to pause and inhabit the interval between pressure and release