Art
Creative work exploring emotion, identity, and lived experience
Eat, Paint, Love
Narrative essay
Eat, Paint, Love, published in Stanford Graduate School of Business's magazine non-disclosure, reflects on my experience solo traveling in Florence, where I studied painting as part of an intensive art course. Through that process, the idea of independence, so often framed as self-sufficiency, began to unravel. This piece invites readers to rethink not just how we travel, but how we define strength - and to stop treating the desire for connection as something to overcome.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Archival film
As our world becomes increasingly digitized, questions of who owns history - and whose stories are preserved - become more urgent. Love Thy Neighbor draws from my own archive to preserve lived experience as meaning, not just information. It captures my mother's experience attending a Catholic high school in Staten Island in the late 1970s, where the promise of Christian values stood in tension with the racism she experienced.
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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