I paint in the space between holding it together and falling apart.
Through a reinvention of Cubism, I capture figures and scenes at a moment of rupture  — when performance and facade shatter and the curated self collapses. Our lives are shaped by the roles we play to be accepted, desired, or simply to survive. My work confronts the toll of the curated self in an age when image is the loudest currency. The same forces I recognized as a queer kid in the religious South — where authenticity was dangerous and moral superiority the measure of worth — now play out on global stages: in the suburbs, on social media, in every space where visibility and belonging are bartered.

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