I love creating art because it turns life, loss, and survival into something visible, and deeply human. My paintings are my legacy.
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Receive Text UpdatesI create abstract, passionately driven work that turns lived experience into bold color, movement, and form. Painting is my primary medium, but I also explore sculpture and street art. My work blends abstract expression with pop surrealist elements, including recurring skull imagery as symbols of transformation, memory, and resilience. At the core, I’m driven by freedom, honesty, and visual expression rooted in lived experience.
Where do you find inspiration?My inspiration comes from within—self-discipline, adaptation, struggle, and persistence. I’m influenced by the energy of the city, music, and the quiet intensity of everyday life. My work is a way of translating what can’t always be put into words. Courage turn's my life into freedom , and that freedom becomes the work.
What would you do with $25,000?I would use it to build a stable foundation for my life and career. That means investing directly into my practice—materials, space, and creative development—while also creating financial stability for the first time in a meaningful way. That stability would allow me to focus fully on my work, expand my output, and continue growing as an artist.
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