I find architecture to be a compelling focus because it is both visually intricate and emotionally layered. We bring deep personal and collective associations to the buildings that shape our world; they are the places where we live, work, and gather. When grouped together, buildings become vessels for community and shared experience. These broader social and emotional dimensions of architecture led me to examine how individual spaces are structured and perceived. I am interested in the relationship between interior and exterior spaces, and by the ways those spaces connect, overlap, or remain divided. The frameworks of buildings often act as emotional thresholds, hinting at histories, memories, and unseen human experiences beneath the surface.
In my paintings, buildings often transform into something else. They become containers for stories and experiences that are both personal and universal. Natural and man-made motifs recur throughout my work as symbolic elements that help shape a broader emotional narrative. I draw meaning from a range of influences, including the Victorian language of flowers, history, literature, Midwestern culture, and my own evolving iconography. These motifs often form patterns that either reveal or obscure a central structure. I experiment with subverting legibility, layering images and visual information to suggest narrative without fully revealing it. Through architecture, I explore how deeply personal experiences can resonate beyond the individual, creating spaces where private memory and universal human connection are explored.