On a canvas stretching from southern California to northern Italy, my paintings portray a manifestation
of parallel destinies merged together on a journey of self-discovery and awareness.  For nearly a decade,
I have been living abroad in Italy without the familiar avenues of American culture and opportunity.  As a
foreign woman in a dominantly male society, it became essential to fuse my identities from two diverse
cultures.  Labeled a "straniera" (foreigner), and often singled out, I developed a profound sensibility of the
differences others perceived of me.  Through detachment, isolation, and exploration, my individuality
steadily unmasks and illuminates itself through my art.  Limited by language, painting, as reflected in my
work, has become my dominant form of communication.

These contemporary works are abstract and surrealistic impressions depicting the relationship between
a woman and the world she lives in.  Characters represent Goddess, Warrior, and Monster; they are alien
and human; imperfect yet ideal; archetypes full of purpose and empowerment.  Blending both urban artist
subculture with new anthropological Italian trends and flavors became a recipe for this transformative
series of paintings.  

Each composition presents a staged scene and open curtain to each character's journey; adaptation,
reflection, and subsequent evolution.  Forms suggest the playful nature of life as theatre, influenced
by my foundation in fine arts and production design.  The juxtaposition of landscape, materialism,
sexuality, and the metaphysical innuendos within each piece, defines an important theme throughout my
work.  

While further expressing the theme of Adaptation and my experience living abroad, my paintings depict
a vigilant narrative between the abstraction of both landscape and figurative forms.  Themes such as
detachment, departure, the Internet, new anthropology, "species consciousness", biology, and the living
universe are being interwoven into my visual storytelling.  My paintings are portholes to a profound
awakening, and I hope to stimulate all senses in the state of being and beyond.