Index
More Than Expression
This portfolio isnโt just a mix of artworkโitโs a reflection of how I process the hard stuff: identity, emotion, memory, and the mess in between.
Each piece marks a real moment in my lifeโsomething felt, questioned, or confronted. I donโt make art to decorate. I make it to dig. To explore the parts of ourselves we tend to ignore or cover up.
Jungโs concept of the Shadow shows up a lot in my workโnot as a theory, but as lived experience. I use color, symbol, texture, and contrast to explore what happens when we stop pretending weโve got it all figured out.
This isnโt about making things look nice. Itโs about making things feel real.
If something in the work makes you pause, lean into that. The part that resists is probably the part that needs your attention.
You-Do-You Voodooโข Art Dolls
These arenโt toys. Theyโre talismans.
Each You-Do-You Voodooโข doll is a fierce little altar wrapped in yarn and truth. Handmade with intention, they don’t sit quietly on a shelf. Theyโre built to witness.
These dolls carry your shadow and your sovereignty. They donโt promise healingโthey dare you to claim it by embracing every cracked and holy part of yourself.
Vulnerability isnโt weakness here. Itโs a power source.
You donโt have to believe in magic for them to work. Just believe that you deserve to come back to yourself.
Paintings
These paintings haunt, hold, and heal me. Each brushstroke is a conversation between whatโs seen and whatโs suppressed. I paint not to escape emotion, but to enter it fully. Joy and grief live side by side here, not competing, just coexistingโlike they do in real life. Light isnโt purity. Shadow isnโt sin. Theyโre both necessary. Both sacred.
These works are visual thresholds. They donโt hand you answers. They ask better questions. What are you still carrying? What are you refusing to feel? What beauty are you withholding from yourself because you think you have to earn it?
This is art for anyone whoโs ready to feel moreโnot less.
Drawings
These drawings are slow spellsโcast in graphite, born in silence.
Theyโre meditations on what Iโd rather not say out loud. Every mark is a negotiation between chaos and clarity, between my unconscious and the version of me that shows up in public.
I donโt sketch what I see. I sketch what wonโt leave me alone.
These pieces ask you to linger. To hear whatโs underneath. They invite stillness. Reflection. And if youโre paying attention, you might just see something familiar staring backโsomething you’ve buried, something waiting.
They donโt shout. But they donโt whisper, either.
Digital Art & Photographs
My lens doesnโt chase spectacleโit catches the quiet things that shape us. A chipped mug. A shadow falling just right. The curve of a shoulder in bad light. These aren’t just snapshots. Theyโre soft truths caught mid-breath. Symbols disguised as the mundane.
Photography, for me, is about presence. About seeing what we usually ignore and asking: What does this say about who I am right now? Every image becomes a mirror. Every ordinary moment becomes myth when we finally stop to look.
Transformation isnโt always dramatic. Sometimes itโs in the way the light hits your kitchen floor.
Miscellaneous Art
This is where the weird livesโand the wisdom too.
These pieces donโt fit neatly into categories, and thatโs the point. From altar-worthy home decor to unruly mixed media experiments, this collection holds the work that breaks form so it can speak more freely. Unexpected materials. Strange pairings. Symbols you donโt see coming.
Each creation is designed to make you pauseโnot just to admire, but to wonder. What does this stir in me? What part of me recognizes this?
Itโs not random. Itโs ritual in disguise. Curiosity is the spell. Interpretation is the initiation.
Welcome to the in-between.
Why Explore My Art?
This portfolio is a survival record.
Every piece you see here came from the trenches: grief, growth, reckoning, and repair. My art is the artifact of a life spent turning fragmentation into form. Itโs a visual archive of what it means to face your shadow and not flinch. Of what happens when you stop performing and start remembering.
Whether itโs the bold defiance of a painting or the quiet ache of a pencil line, each piece is built to reflect you as much as me. Your losses. Your longings. Your becoming.
This isnโt therapy. But it is therapeuticโif you let it be.
You donโt have to make sense of it. You just have to feel it.
So linger. React. Resist. Come back to what pulls at you.
This is your invitation to use artโnot just to look at, but to feel through.