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My practice moves through questions of memory, spirituality, displacement, and humanity’s relationship to the Divine. Through painting, I return to the understanding that personal experience, ancestral history, and the natural world all exist in dialogue with unseen spiritual realities. How might identity be shaped not only through geography and inheritance, but through faith, intuition, and presence? Where does the sacred exist within memory, landscape, and the body?
Raised between Jamaica, New York, Tokyo, and elsewhere, I have often experienced identity as something fluid, fragmented, and continuously shifting. Rooted in Sephardic Jewish, European, Chinese, and West African ancestry, my work draws from multiple cultural and spiritual traditions while resisting fixed definitions of self or belonging. Instead, the paintings ask whether fragmentation itself can become a form of continuity, and whether multiplicity might hold its own kind of coherence.
At the center of my practice is a belief in artistic creation as a form of communion - an attempt to approach the Divine through attention, contemplation, and openness. I understand the impulse to create as a gift given through the Divine, and painting becomes a way of listening as much as making. Landscape, gesture, atmosphere, and memory function less as subjects than as thresholds: spaces through which questions of spirit, presence, and transformation can emerge.
Influenced by traditions including Gutai, Shan shui painting, Surrealism, Caribbean Intuitive painting, and spiritual abstraction, my works move between figuration and dissolution, silence and movement, intimacy and vastness. Rather than offering fixed narratives, the paintings remain open-ended - spaces where the visible and invisible, the corporeal and metaphysical, might briefly converge.
I am currently based in Passau. I hold a BA in Art from Pomona College and an MA in Painting from Royal College of Art.