An admirer of the melancholic, I view sadness in art with wide eyes and it is my desire to share this sacred indescribable connection I feel. 

 

Raised in the Catholic faith, I was bombarded in my youth with the imagery of solemn figures, pained subjects, and woefully ecstatic scenes of martyrs, almost celebrating this misery and holy woundedness with halos bestowed like crowns. I felt my entire being become heavy, shaded by religious iconography, and yet like light through the trees, glimmers of beauty captured my gaze.

Inspired by the masters like Michelangelo Caravaggio’s soft supple subjects, Edgar Degas’ impressionistic ballerinas, and Gustav Klimt’s austere facial expressions, I grow my imaginary figures steeped in shades of purples and blues and compose them as lone central symbols. 

 

For this reason, I paint in desaturated tones interwoven with jeweled rays of light; coupled with distant expressions, elicit a sense of vulnerability and detachment in my paintings. With ethereal hands, my inner struggles with control, loss, identity, are evident and with soft, feminine figures my vulnerability and fragility are laid bare in the spotlight.

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Towards the light! With the digital medium I’m able to work with light and with this comes the digital aspect of creating in an intangible space, I can create tools and canvas that mimic entire studios, however, the digital nature of this process can be difficult to work with and requires great care not to look too artificial.

Ultimately mixing the modern elements with the classical, I visualize sadness as something quiet, beautiful.