Series 1:
If Emotions Were Tangible
This series explores the emotional extremes of the human experience—hope, fear, isolation, love, and everything that blurs between. Through bold color gradients, stark contrasts and layered symbolism, I aim to make intangible emotions feel tangible. Each piece is part confession, part confrontation, pulling from moments where I’ve questioned what’s real, what’s performative, and what’s deeply felt.
This series showcases original paintings and limited-edition canvas prints from my ongoing series. Every painting is created to stand on its own, but together, they form a visual narrative that reflects my internal landscape. I want these pieces to sit with people the way complicated emotions do—beautiful at first glance, but harder to untangle the longer you look.
If you’ve ever felt too much or not enough, like your emotions were too big to hold or too quiet to trust, I hope you see something of yourself here.
Series 1
Cupid
2025, Acrylic on Canvas, Series 1: If Emotions Were Tangible
Blindfolded and cast in stark monochrome, Cupid prepares to release his arrow that's aimed at nothing in particular. Centered by an ultra-vibrant, 36-value gradient of cadmium reds, oranges, and yellows, Cupid radiates frustration, anxiety and hopelessness.
In this piece, I wanted to explore love and ulterior motives—the manipulations that often go unnoticed until it’s too late. There’s a sense of resentment woven into it: the feeling of having your emotions treated like a game. Maybe it's about filling the void left by someone else. Or maybe it's just about not wanting to be alone, regardless of the cost.
By being blindfolded, Cupid turns love into a careless game of chance. It reflects the frustrating cycle of falling for the wrong people, again and again. It’s that space where hope, doubt, and anticipation all blur together. And maybe that’s the point—to sit in the tension between craving something real and wondering if it even exists.
Black and White Heart
2024, Acrylic on Canvas, Series 1: If Emotions Were Tangible
Black and white thinking is a cognitive pattern where people or situations are seen as entirely good or bad, right or wrong—with no space for nuance. This rigid mindset can distort reality, leading to confusion, isolation, and emotional volatility.
During a time of personal struggle, I painted Black and White Heart to externalize these feelings by turning them into something tangible.
The stark transitions from black to white represent the sharp divisions this mindset creates, while the gradient reflects the emotional subtleties that often get lost. The inverted heartbeat line symbolizes the chaos that polarized thinking brings—when stability is flipped and clarity becomes distorted.
Heart Martini
2025, Acrylic on Canvas, Series 1: If Emotions Were Tangible
What we wish for isn’t what we always end up with—but when we see the inevitable heartbreak looming, why do we continue to pursue this dream of what could be? Heart Martini explores wishful thinking; the irresistible pull of temptation and the quiet awareness that some connections inevitably end in heartbreak.
Floating pink clouds and sparkling stars rise out of the cocktail like an elusive dream—the idealized vision of what could be. Heart garnishes, pierced by the vibrant green sword, symbolize our emotional vulnerability and our intuitive awareness of impending heartbreak.
Will you give in to the allure and take a sip, accepting the risk of vulnerability? Is this dream born from naïve hope, or simply a self-created delusion?
Mary
2025, Acrylic on Canvas, Series 1: If Emotions Were Tangible
Mary confronts viewers with the stark, inevitable intertwining of life and loss. Painted meticulously in a 6-value gradient, she underscores the universal truth that everyone is subject to the weight of time, death, and despair.
The everpresent awareness of our own mortality and its coexistance with grief is why we seek connection, beauty and purpose in our lives. Half serene, half skeletal; Mary symbolizes this duality of what it means to be alive.
This painting is not a plea for comfort, but a quiet acceptance of grief’s permanence, inviting contemplation on the beauty and pain inherent in the human experience.
Popsicles
2024, Acrylic on Canvas, Series 1: If Emotions Were Tangible
Popsicles captures a bittersweet story of love with an expiration date.
Two vibrant blue popsicles hold onto one another in tender embrace, with the warmth from their love surrounding them in a glowing gradient of soft orange. As the heat from their love leads to their undoing, they choose to hold on to one another until the very end.
Inspired by a personal longing for someone who's now out of reach, this piece crystallizes that fragile moment when love is most tender—just before it slips away. It is an ode to holding on, even when we know we can’t hold on forever.
Jackpot
2025, Acrylic on Canvas, Series 1: If Emotions Were Tangible
Jackpot explores the seductive thrill of risk and the desperation for something—anything—to hit. Hope, in this piece, becomes a disguise for impulsivity: that electrifying moment when you're all in, driven not just by want, but by the fear of missing your chance.
Glowing, neon-infused colors intensify the urgency and allure, evoking the late-night tension of decisions made on fleeting optimism. Whether it's money or love, I often find myself impulsively wanting it all. I don’t hesitate to be vulnerable or take the leap—and more often than not, I want to roll the dice. I tell myself it's boldness, not recklessness. But where is the line?
Reflected in the slot-machine numbers is a subtle commentary on how easily chance can tangle with identity and self-worth. The tear-shaped dollar sign dripping from the eye points to the hidden emotional cost behind the high, reminding us just how thin the line is between fortune and loss.
Ethereal Cat
2024, Acrylic on Canvas, Series 1: If Emotions Were Tangible
Ethereal Cat reflects the tension of transformation—the moment when you're suspended between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming. The cat’s glowing white eyes meet the viewer head-on, silently asking: Why are you here?
Framed by a vivid gradient of reds, oranges and deep blues, the cat sits at the edge of a still body of water, surrounded by pine trees and smooth stones. The fiery sky radiates both urgency and calm, symbolizing inner shifts and emotional thresholds.
I created this piece during a time when I had to look inward and ask myself the hard questions: What did it take to get here, and what will it take to keep going? It reflects that vulnerable space where doubt meets clarity, and where faith in yourself must outweigh fear.
Skull
2024, Acrylic on Canvas, Series 1: If Emotions Were Tangible
Acceptance means embracing your pain; acknowledging it fully, without judgment. There is no right or wrong in emotional truth; your pain is not a weakness, but a testament to all you’ve endured.
My Skull painting is not meant to evoke death, but honesty. Stripped of pretense, it symbolizes emotional exposure—raw and unguarded. Its subtle imperfections made it feel like a quiet reflection of myself—flawed, human, and still whole. I felt a sense of peace in that.
The vibrant blue tears streaming from its eyes are deliberately loud in color against the grayscale void, refusing to be hidden or silenced. The concentric rings of black and gray radiating outward represent the emotional ripple of acceptance—grief, shame, and healing all moving through you in waves. The stark transitions reflect the sharpness of the experience, but their gradients suggest that pain, too, can soften over time.