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My work lives at the intersection of memory and identity, where mixed media becomes a language for stories that don't fit into a single medium. I paint people, not just faces: the roots they carry, the cultures that shaped them, the quiet dignity in everyday moments. As a young artist just beginning this journey, I see every piece as both a discovery and a declaration, proof that art doesn't wait for permission to matter.

I believe portraiture is an act of honoring. Every layer I build, acrylic grounding the piece in boldness, oil softening it into depth, charcoal grounding the raw and unfinished, gold leaf marking what deserves reverence, is a way of saying this person, this heritage, this moment is worth preserving. Mixed media lets me hold contradiction the way real identity does: rough and refined, ancestral and modern, fragile and unshakeable, all in the same frame.
I'm not interested in painting people as they're expected to look. I'm interested in painting them as they are, layered, cultural, luminous, and complex, using materials that let me build texture the way life builds texture: piece by piece, without smoothing over the seams.