I make paintings about memory and the systems we use to assign value. Using traditional oil techniques, I paint vintage head vases & porcelain figurines, that sit in a blurry space between the sentimental and the surreal. I’m drawn to items that feel precious and ridiculous simultaneously. Some are nearly worthless, others are considered valuable, but all have stories layered onto them that shift depending on who’s looking. By placing these objects in dreamlike, often fantastical environments, I want to explore what we hold sacred, what we discard, and how those choices reflect something deeper. My work borrows visual cues from Romanticism, Realism and the Surrealist movements, but I’m less interested in definitions and answers than in the quiet tension between beauty and doubt, devotion and irony. Mortality is always there, humming beneath the surface, not as the end of the story, but the thing that shapes the stakes.