From my experience, physical comfort in a space is rare. I carry the weight of a heightened sensitivity to my body’s reactions within my space inside each of my paintings as a person with Sensory Processing Disorder and anxiety. My sensory sensitivities are helpful in forcing me to focus on the body's emotional and physical reactions to a space. My paintings often work to process the simultaneous physicality of my existence in mental and physical spaces.

Sensory sensitivities allow me to feel sound more than I hear sound. Tuning into the feeling of sound may provide me with safety or pain, but tuning into the feeling of music grounds me. I will often listen to music to create comfort in my space while I paint to inspire fluidity and grace in my brushstrokes. Music guides me through my painting journey, but my body’s relationship to its sensory experiences is what creates my visual language. 

With open arms and authenticity, I invite viewers to take a moment to notice their relationship to their senses. I use fluid acrylic paint and saturated color to express the body’s relationship to sound through impressionistic mark-making techniques. The auditory volume of color and the temperature my body feels while experiencing sound within my paintings controls my color choices. I use my training in traditional live figure drawing as the dance I return to in order to create authentic documentations of my body’s reaction to moments of sound.