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Original works exploring tension, intimacy, emotional architecture — each piece one-of-one
The Mind Behind the Work
I create to understand the architecture of human connection — the tension between vulnerability and strength, intimacy and distance, what we show and what we hide.
Each work is a singular original. No prints. No reproductions. No editions. This commitment to one-of-one creation ensures every piece carries the full weight of intention.
Collectors describe living with these works as entering a sustained conversation — not decoration, but relationship. The paintings shift with your own emotional states, revealing new layers over time.
These works are not decorative. They are relational.
On a good day
Charcoal lines emerge from white impasto—a figure barely the
Oil on Bedsheet | 12 × 12 in
Aya & T
Pink warmth and blue shadow—a reclining figure rendered with
Oil on Panel | 12 × 12 in
Warm
Heat radiates from the canvas—a body remembering warmth it h
Oil and Flashe on Canvas | 24 × 20 in
Double image
Two selves, one frame—the tension between who we are and who
Oil & flashe on canvas | 24 x 24 in
Angst 33
Raw emotion compressed into a 12-inch square—the thirty-thir
acrylic, and oil on canvas | 12 x 12 inches
QE Studio Reflection Selfie
The studio mirror becomes a portal—artist and reflection loc
Acrylic and oil on canvas | 20 x 26 inches
past, present, future (where am i going)
Time collapses on canvas—three selves occupying the same spa
Flashe and oil on canvas | 48 x 48 inches
Monica umibae
A portrait that captures presence beyond likeness—the weight
Oil on canvas (aluminum stretcher bars) | 26 x 38 inches
Blonde Brushing Teeth
A mundane ritual elevated to portraiture—the private moment
Oil on Canvas |
Matrix
Reality filtered through digital consciousness—the grid of m
Oil on Canvas |
Mirror Selfie
The mirror as collaborator—a selfie that interrogates the ve
Oil on Canvas |
Necklace
Adornment as armor—the necklace frames the body while the bo
Oil on Canvas |
Seatbelt
Restraint and protection intertwined—the seatbelt as metapho
Oil on Canvas |
Studio Nude
The studio stripped bare—vulnerability and artistic traditio
Oil on Canvas |
Tech Pieta
A contemporary meditation on devotion and technology—the sac
Flashe and oil on canvas | 10 x 10 inches
Drill Sergeant
Authority distilled into paint—the commanding presence softe
Flash, acrylic, and oil on canvas | 12 x 12 inches
Nape
The back of the neck exposed—an intimate vulnerability rarel
Flash, acrylic, oil, and pastels on canvas | 12 x 12 inches
Quantum Leap
A fragmented interplay between identity, memory, and the dig
Oil on Canvas | 69 × 40 in
A for Effort #3
Gold leaf catches the light like a participation trophy—effo
Oil, Acrylic, and Gold Leaf on Panel | 26 × 16 in
Selfie #34
The thirty-fourth attempt to capture what the camera always
Oil on Canvas | 19 × 13 in
Selfie Study 4
A miniature excavation of self—intimate scale, monumental vu
Oil on Canvas | 7 × 4 in
Selfie Study 3
Each study peels back another layer of the performed self
Oil on Canvas | 7 × 4 in
Selfie Study 5
The fifth iteration—still searching for the face behind the
Oil on Canvas | 7 × 4 in
Selfie Study
The original study—where the obsession with self-documentati
Oil on Canvas | 6 × 4 in
Selfie Study 2
A second glance reveals what the first one chose to ignore
Oil on Canvas | 6 × 4 in
Angst 22
Anxiety rendered in oil—small enough to hold, too heavy to c
Oil on Canvas | 10 × 8 in
Angst 21
The twenty-first iteration of dread, each one slightly diffe
Oil on Canvas | 10 × 8 in
Angst #19
Nineteen variations on the same unease—repetition as ritual,
Oil on Canvas | 10 × 8 in
Molly Study #2
A study in presence—the subject rendered with the urgency of
Oil on Paper | 12 × 9 in
Molly Study #1
The first attempt to capture Molly—raw, unfinished, honest
Oil on Paper | 10 × 8 in
Molly Study #4
By the fourth study, the brush knows the subject better than
Oil on Paper | 10 × 8 in
Perpetual Epinephrine
Digital devices integrated into the human experience—cutting
Oil on Canvas | 36 × 72 in
Wired
Displacement and disorientation—attempting to pinpoint her p
Oil on Canvas | 72 × 48 in
Intertwined
Bodies and identities woven together—where one ends and anot
Oil on Canvas | 20 × 24 in
Roberto Study
Expressing ideas through glitches, pixels, and shapes—a teet
Oil on Canvas | 20 × 24 in
Overexposed
The light that reveals also burns
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Threshold of Becoming
Hands hesitating at the door of change
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 in
The Witnesses
Four versions watching the final choice
Oil on Canvas | 60 x 72 in
Pink Surrender
Surrendering to gravity and softness
Oil on Canvas | 24 x 30 in
Electric Gaze
Daring you to look away from the blue
Oil on Canvas | 12 x 12 in
Violet Collapse
The body folds when the mind refuses
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 36 in
Infinite Scroll
Multiplied until the original becomes a copy
Oil on Wood Panels | 30 x 36 in
Memory Grid
Life arranged into squares seeking order
Oil on Canvas | 18 x 36 in
Chrome Reflection
Trapped in reflection, distorted but visible
Oil on Canvas | 40 x 50 in
Lavender Veil
Hiding behind hands when the world demands
Oil on Canvas | 16 x 16 in
Peach Embrace
The weight of holding yourself together alone
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 36 in
Chartreuse Drift
Sitting in the green until it sits in you
Oil on Canvas | 12 x 12 in
Golden Weight
Bowing from the sheer weight of being seen
Oil on Canvas | 12 x 12 in
Blonde Armor
Armor worn against intimacy and closeness
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 36 in
Inverted Sanctuary
A room painted upside down, as it feels
Oil on Canvas | 48 x 60 in
The Fall
A confrontation with gravity and grace
Oil on Canvas | 40 x 50 in
Acquired by private collector, 2025
The Flicker
The space between one thought and the next
Oil on Canvas | 40 x 40 in
Soft Erasure
Light dissolving the edges of identity
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 36 in
The Vessel
A sanctuary for what cannot survive exposure
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 in
The Precipice
The moment before transformation begins
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 in
Permeable
Boundaries dissolving between self and space
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 36 in
White Noise Woman
Empty space held together by expectation
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 36 in
Terrible Resilience
Softness as the ultimate form of strength
Oil on Canvas | 36 x 36 in
Amber Scream
Sound removed, vibration preserved in paint
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Eternal Return
Circling the same lesson until it breaks
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Fused
The mask fused permanently to skin
Oil on Canvas | Variable
The Ledger
Negotiating with the parts we wish to evict
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Gradient
Truth exists as a gradient without language
Oil on Canvas | Variable
The Stranger
A stranger who knows all your secrets
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Fuel
Burning what we hate to keep warm
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Autopilot
The spirit floating while the machine runs
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Potential Energy
Humming with the static of unlived moments
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Virtual Ruins
Ruins of a virtual civilization fading
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Atmosphere
Solid for such a short time
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Where Light Enters
Broken pieces glued together by hope
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Canyon of Static
Shouting across a canyon of static
Oil on Canvas | Variable
Copper Cable
The nervous system carrying too much voltage
Charcoal on Paper | 18 x 24 in
Entropy
Built to fall apart with terrible beauty
Charcoal on Paper | 18 x 24 in
Scar Tissue
A thought that refused to heal
Charcoal on Paper | 18 x 24 in
The Mirror Cracks
Vanity uploaded, returned as static
Mixed Media | 24 x 36 in
Archeology of Self
Masks layered until the original face disappears
Mixed Media | 24 x 36 in
Collective Blur
The past rewriting us in real-time
Oil on Canvas | 30 x 40 in
Algorithm Knows
A digital haunting where the algorithm knows us better than
Digital Print | Variable
Jagged Bursts
Thoughts are jagged bursts of electricity
Digital | Variable
Buffer Overflow
The childhood home, the lover's face—it all drains into the
Digital | Variable
Deep Data Ocean
The mind unmoors itself and floats into the deep data ocean
Digital | Variable
System Crash
A beautiful, catastrophic failure of the internal logic boar
Digital | Variable
Render Farm
The subconscious is now a render farm processing the trauma
Digital | Variable
Fragmented VI
Identity scattered across platforms, reassembled by stranger
Digital Collage | Variable
Fragmented VII
The self as mosaic
Digital Collage | Variable
Fragmented VIII
Pixels holding hands across the void
Digital Collage | Variable
One of one. Original canvas. No reproductions.
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Recognition
Exhibited
International Center of Photography, NYC
Los Angeles Studio Open Days
Upcoming exhibitions TBA 2026
As Seen In
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Collected By
Private collectors in Santa Monica, Aspen, New York
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