I’m an autistic artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I approach my practice with a sense of curiosity about what it means to be human– apart from societal norms and expectations. I’m inspired by nature, music, and the places where harmony and dissonance overlap. My work is how I process the world’s intensity and connect with deeper meaning.
Color is at the heart of my process. Synesthesia shapes how I perceive and create, lending me a heightened sensitivity to sound and visual associations. My work interprets hue and pigment as though they were sonic experiences– exploring how color can behave like a note, a chord, or a rhythmic pattern. Through form, repetition, and subtle shifts, I examine how tonal narratives accumulate and evolve– how they disrupt, how they soothe, how they manifest internally.
My recent paintings build on this approach to probe perceptions of formlessness through the use of form. Made of acrylic ink and vinyl emulsion on heavyweight watercolor paper, they combine organic line and form with geometric shapes– the way I visualize the intermingling of nature and concept. As the different elements interact, the composition becomes something less definable- a state of flux, movement, and transformation.
I feel the finished works suggest origin points- not fixed beginnings, but moments of emergence. They remind me that form is not the opposite of freedom, but its ultimate expression. Through the process of making them, I encounter both spaciousness and connection. They are a meditation on the way presence and absence, form and formlessness, continually give way to one another.