It wasn’t the dress or the stillness or the hour—

it was the way she didn’t move when the light arrived.

The Light Chose Her First is a moment steeped in reverence. Caught between fading sun and blooming shadow, she stands in quiet alignment with everything unseen. Rays pour in like memory, threading through gauze curtains, laying patterns on the wall that feel more whispered than cast. She doesn’t look toward the light. She waits for it to finish speaking.

Artist Process:

This image is a meditation in contrast—softness against structure, silence against illumination. The subject’s silhouette was composed at a side angle to enhance the impression of stillness within motion, with the rays of light forming organic diagonals that draw attention to her yet also move past her. The brick wall and vintage rug textures were preserved to deepen the warmth and tactile sense of time. Everything here—positioning, light scattering, the unlit face—was constructed to give weight to the intangible. The viewer doesn’t simply see her—they feel her waiting.

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Offering Vessel” examines the ritualized language of surrender how the body enacts meaning through the simplest gestures. In this piece, the unseen figure becomes a conduit, the curved container they hold a metaphor for both burden and release. The fluid it drips is not just liquid it’s memory, intention, sacrifice. The blood-like trail stains not just the wall but the air, hanging in silence like breath held too long. I created this work as a meditation on intimacy and transference, where the act of pouring becomes both cleansing and damning. It is not about death, but about what we are willing to give up in order to feel seen. This piece lives in the shadow space between sacred offering and quiet unraveling intimate, severe, and unresolved.

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Artist Statement:

“All The Exits Are Up”

They said there would be signs.

But most transitions don’t arrive with trumpets — they’re soft, bureaucratic, anonymous.

This work explores the psychology of upward movement when elevation is neither chosen nor earned — merely mandated.

Is it salvation? Surveillance? Or just another door in a vertical maze?

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