MADISON
WARP
DEPARTMENT
PAINTING
My paintings play at the fringe of dreams and the waking world with as much detail focused on capturing the reality of the scenes I paint as the emotive projections that I draw upon them. My work deals primarily with eye-avoiding self portraiture, vignettes of intimate ephemera, and gloomy, cinematic spirit-scapes. Through these worlds I seek to remedy my trauma rooted in patriarchal forces and create lucid spaces for empathy and catharsis. The scenes I create straddle vivid reality and smoky fantasy combining the fantastical narratives that my trauma inspires and the spaces where I seek to heal. Through sharing my world’s peculiarities-phrases from friends that brought a smile to my face during bouts of melancholy, the cars that offer me a means of escaping reality, the doorless rooms where my spirit awaits transformation— I tell stories that make my journey through trauma quiet yet profound, universal yet rare, and a burden no longer for me to bear alone."
Limbo/ Relearning the Confines of Spirit and Skin
2024, Oil on canvas, 56" x 72"
Break the Cycle/ I am Done Running in Circles
2025, Oil on canvas, 18" x 24"
Jumanji XXX/ Escape Through Transmutation
2024, Oil on canvas, 30" x 40"
The Goddess Appears/ A Portal Is Opened
2024, Oil on canvas, 24" x 18"