Where would you like to take your work in the future?

I know that my work hasn’t quite arrived — there’s a lot of integration that has yet to happen for me. My interests in artmaking — or more broadly, “making” — are very disparate. I sometimes call myself a dilettante, but I don’t necessarily mean that as a pejorative because I believe humans are creative by nature. I am drawn to many forms of expression — maybe it’s just a way of living, not just “being an artist.” I truly try to be okay with that and not get too bogged down by more conventional ideas of what success as an artist looks like.

I think my experience as an immigrant outside of the dominant culture has given me an appreciation of looking for what is not so obvious — the hidden scenes and the underlying emotions. I am most happy with my paintings that express these feelings and ideas about what it means to be human. I want to continue in that vein and I am open to whatever imagery or styles that help me get there.