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Cozy explores the defiant act of feeling at ease within a female body. Resting beneath moonlight while the sun offers warmth rather than dominance, the figure embodies softness without submission. Her comfort becomes radical: reclaiming pleasure, rest, and embodiment as forms of resistance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67ae42038940c028bc70103b/97b428fd-7432-432a-ad6d-d66cdf5839cb/IMG_2855.jpeg Artwork - Figurative, Imaginative 13 x 18.5 | pastel | drawn from live model Witness emerged from an evening spent with a dear friend as she prepared for a life-saving surgery. She asked me to draw her body as it existed in that moment — fully seen and honored, perhaps for the last time in that form. We sat together drinking wine, talking about grief, love, and the unknown. The drawing holds the layered experience of witnessing and being witnessed: sorrow and tenderness existing simultaneously. 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Here Now explores the act of taking up space within one’s body despite generations of conditioning toward smallness, beauty, and self-erasure. The figure inhabits a moment of release — terrifying and liberating at once. The work reflects the shedding of inherited beliefs meant to protect, yet often limiting freedom, presence, and embodiment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67ae42038940c028bc70103b/b023d2ae-65f3-442a-85f3-a5e18c3c166e/IMG_1723.jpeg Artwork - Figurative, Imaginative Between Worlds | 18x13 pastel | drawn from live model. The figure in Between Worlds stands at the threshold between imagination, nature, and spirit, and the opposing forces of industry, structure, and control. Rather than belonging fully to either, she belongs to herself. 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