Art
Creative work exploring emotion, identity, and lived experience
Eat, Paint, Love
Narrative essay
Independence is often framed as self-sufficiency. In practice, it can be a form of distance.
Eat, Paint, Love, published in Stanford Graduate School of Business's magazine non-disclosure, draws from my time studying painting in Florence to challenge how we define strength. Through solo travel and daily studio practice, the idea of independence began to unravel.
This piece argues that the desire for connection is not a weakness to overcome. It is a signal of what actually makes us feel alive.
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Love Thy Neighbour
Archival film
Digital systems don't just store history. They shape which versions of it survive.
Love Thy Neighbour draws from personal archive to surface a story that would otherwise be flattened or lost. It captures my mother's experience at a Catholic high school in Staten Island in the late 1970s, where the language of faith coexisted with everyday racism.
As more of our lives are stored, indexed, and surfaced through digital systems, what gets retained is often what fits cleanly. This project resists that compression. Memory is not clean. It holds contradiction, and preserving it means keeping that intact.
Painting Samples
Oil paintings
These paintings were completed while living in Florence, where I spent time studying and practicing classical techniques. The process became less about precision, and more about learning to notice, slow down, and engage more intentionally with what's in front of me.
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