2021 / Acrylics, colored pencil on paper / 29.7 x 42 cm

This small series is about the feelings of delving into one’s dreams. The first, made in January 2021, is a smaller painting of a fellow artist. The paintings are an attempt to visualize those moments in between dreams and reality/when you’re awake. Within that stage, you're pulled to go back into that realm while also being somewhat conscious and able to decide if you want to fall asleep or actually wake up.

2020 / Watercolor on paper / 29.7 x 38.1 cm

”As I am half American I thought it was important to address some pressing issues that Americans are facing during the pandemic. For instance, I wanted to address how Black Americans are three times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white Americans as a result of various factors like redlining, poverty, and racism that my country was founded on. I also wanted to address some of the cases of brutality against Black Americans. These, especially the latter, are important to realize because, despite crime rates going down, incarceration rates going down, and arrest rates going down, the rate of murders committed by police is not going down and remain the same even in a global pandemic. So while we are all going through a global pandemic, we must recognize that we are not all affected the same way due to race, class, gender, and more.”

2020 / Watercolor & Acrylics on paper / 29.7x42cm

Based on the history of the pink triangle. Inspired by Kieth Haring, Rocky Horror Show, AIDs memorial quilt, ACT-up & Grand Fury’s Silence = Death, and of course, the origins; it’s use in WWII concentration camps.

2021 / Acrylic and colored pencil on paper / 21 x 29.7 cm

This piece attempts to represent this with the vines or roots surrounding and latching onto the person while they’re also awake, confronting the dream head-on, but being drawn out of their sleeping state.
The second, made in October 2021, is a larger self-portrait. The title of the second piece is Acetylcholine as this is a neurotransmitter in which during REM sleep, the more that is used by the body, the more vivid and memorable one’s dreams are. The artist has had very imaginative and vivid dreams since childhood and draws inspiration from this. It is a place almost devoid of time and space as one can forget one’s own existence within them. Within that stage, you're pulled to go back into that realm while also being somewhat conscious and able to decide if you want to fall asleep or actually wake up. This piece attempts to represent this with the vines or roots surrounding and latching onto the person while they’re also awake, confronting the dream head-on, but being drawn out of their sleeping state.

2020 / Water Color on paper / 29.7 x 38.1 cm

2019 / Markers, Watercolors, colored pencil on paper / 29.7 x 42 cm

2020 / Watercolor & Acrylics on Paper

2017 / Pen and Acrylics on Styrofoam

2020 / Charcoal & graphite on paper / 42 x 59 cm