I am a Brooklyn-based acrylic painter drawn to both realism and abstraction — and to the charged space where those two impulses collide.

My Refractions works explores the movement, texture, and luminosity of light as it passes through and reflects off textured and translucent surfaces. I begin by photographing compositions of colored lights and textured glass, capturing moments that are both real and fleeting. Though my work is technically realism, the way I render shapes and movement creates a feeling of obscurity and unfamiliarity, the beautiful strangeness of an ordinary subject caught in an extraordinary circumstance.

Being diagnosed with OCD in 2025 reframed how I understand my work. Looking back, it had always been present in my art; I just didn't have the language to express it. My compulsion toward symmetry, circles, and grids was never purely aesthetic preference, rather it is my mind asserting itself, finding order and demanding resolution. Using textured glass as a tool for structure, repetition, and pattern is that impulse made tangible. My practice is a constant negotiation with my OCD. Through diagnosis, therapy, and treatment, I've developed an awareness of when I am giving in to a compulsion and when I am consciously pushing back. My choice of color, the degree of distortion, the clarity or obscurity of a shape: sometimes these emerge from concept, sometimes instinct, and sometimes from a deep internal need for something to simply feel right. I've stopped trying to separate these motivations or explain a choice that has no explanation.