In January 2025, I was selected as a top corporate lawyer in New York City. Instead of pride, I felt dissonant. I had built a life that appeared successful from the outside, yet distant from the artist I once was. At 32, I knew returning to art could no longer be postponed.
A month later, I left my legal career and began shaping a different kind of studio—one unfolding across lived moments: coastlines in South Korea, time in the Netherlands, and months of experimentation in Japan.
Painted in Tokyo, Skies of Passage traces night into morning across eight panels forming a continuous horizon. Gold leaf catches the light as swallows—symbols of safe passage and return—move through shifting skies. First exhibited in Tokyo in December 2025, the series honors a year of gently coming home to myself.

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