figuers & portraits

My portrait paintings are drawn from both the intimate archives of my family album and the casual snapshots of people around me on social media. These sources—at once personal and collective—become entry points into a visual terrain where memory, connection, and contemporary life converge.

Rather than simply documenting familiar faces, these works reflect on the invisible threads that bind us: love, tension, resilience, and vulnerability within relationships. By reinterpreting photographs through paint, I seek to uncover the nuances of human connection, transforming fleeting images into layered psychological landscapes. Gestures, expressions, and postures become sites where care, estrangement, loyalty, or longing surface, often in ways overlooked in the original photograph.

These paintings are not nostalgic reproductions but acts of inquiry into how relationships are remembered, represented, and reimagined. They ask how identity is shaped in the presence of others—whether family or friends, whether remembered or virtually encountered.

In revisiting these images, I position myself as both observer and participant, acknowledging my role in shaping the narratives that emerge. Through this process, I invite viewers to reflect on their own networks of memory and connection—how images carry not only likeness but also the weight of emotion, history, and relational complexity.