My practice is broadly influenced by my personal experiences of living in an incongruent body, navigating a pervasive dissociation between my internal sense of self and my physical, social and cultural surroundings. Through my work, I have explored themes of gender dysphoria, dysmorphia, eating disorders and identity. This has allowed me to turn painful fragmented experiences into tangible pieces of artwork that is able to give a glimpse of understanding to an audience.

I am particularly interested in the dichotomy between a person’s internal experience as well as others’ perception of that person’s internal truth. This inspires a persistent distorted and fragmented approach to my work, taking realism and contorting it. Moreover, it reflects a theme of refusal to conform to tradition, along with creating a physical representation of dissociation. These themes echo my lived experience of not feeling at home with my body, the world and my mother tongue as a first generation transgender immigrant from a Catholic country. This intersection between feelings of cultural displacement and internal dissonance intersect to create a sense of estrangement which informs both my process and visual outcomes.

I enjoy creating pieces through digital media as it enables an enhances ability for the manipulation and distortion I yearn to achieve. Through media such as video games, I am able to present a world where reality is warped, forcing the audience into an out of body experience similar to the feelings connected to dissociation. It also provides the ability for the audience to be given choices and a unique storyline experience which is more difficult to achieve in traditional media.