My work emerges from two practices: fifteen years of classical realism from the live model and two decades as a psychotherapist in New Orleans. I now see these paths as one, connected through the act of witnessing.

I create the container of the work through careful observation of the live figure — a boundary that allows emotional resonance to emerge without losing contact with the body. Discipline and discernment hold the boundaries of my process. Boundaries protect the openness to explore.

Working in layered pastel, I dissolve edges and merge atmosphere with form to reflect the porous nature of being human. Through letting go, the figure becomes more fully held.

I believe there is something transformative in being truly seen and accepted. In my work, the witnessing of the model, my inner world, and the viewer creates a layered circuit of recognition. Not despite being unfinished. Because of it.

I am summoning the silenced feminine — not as gender, but as a vital embodied intelligence present in all of us, suppressed by a culture that privileges hierarchy, speed, and self-improvement over felt experience and connection.

This work is an act of love. We are worthy of being witnessed exactly where we are in our becoming.