BIO

My work explores the ways light alters us — not only what we see, but how we feel, remember, and inhabit our own bodies. In these paintings, sunlight becomes a transformative force: warming skin, heightening color, softening defenses, and revealing the quiet truths that emerge when we surrender to illumination.

Across the series, figures are suspended in moments of radiance. A woman stands against a field of gold, her presence both grounded and transcendent, held in communion with blooming huachuma cacti. Another reclines in the heat of a summer afternoon, sunglasses shielding her eyes as her body absorbs the sun’s slow intoxication. A wide-brimmed hat casts patterned shadows across skin, turning leisure into ritual. A final portrait glows with a halo of soft light, suggesting the inner illumination that mirrors the outer one.

These works are not simply about summer; they are about the altered state that light invites — the way long days loosen the grip of heaviness, awaken desire, and return us to ourselves. Sunlight becomes a language of tenderness and ferocity, of memory and renewal. It reveals, energizes, heals, and transforms.

In painting these figures, I am drawn to the threshold moments when illumination shifts something inside us — when beauty feels like recognition, when warmth feels like permission, when the world brightens and we brighten with it. This series celebrates that sensation: the euphoric, human experience of being sun drunk.