Artist Statement: Making art is my primary way of engaging with and processing my lived experiences. I work across painting, drawing, photography, and assemblage, often using materials gathered from daily life and from construction sites where I have worked. Whether intimate or large in scale, my work carries emotional force as I respond to life through the act of making itself. Across bodies of work, I trace the arc of that unfolding over time. What begins as a deeply personal process finds expression that resonates with essential human experience, beauty, and impermanence. In my practice, I work in collaboration with time and history. I am drawn to how matter ages, decays, and transforms, and to the inherent beauty that emerges through change. I leave objects already marked by use and memory to weather, exposing them to the elements or burying them, allowing natural processes to alter their surface and form. Memory, loss, reclamation, and renewal are not merely themes; they are embedded in the materials and structure of the work itself. For me, creation is an act of witness and transmutation. Through layering, exposure, burial, preservation, and re-presentation, I examine how experience is absorbed and reshaped over time. I invite viewers into a space where complexity is allowed- where beauty and decay, strength and vulnerability, continuity and change coexist.