My work investigates the relationship between the body, digital gesture, and painting. My
paintings are composed of saturated fields of color interrupted by rounded, abstract forms that overlap, collide, and drift across the canvas. Translucent stains become embedded within the raw canvas while opaque acrylic rests on the surface, creating subtle shifts in color, transparency, and light. While the compositions may seem playful and simple at first, small disruptions in color and form create a sense of tension that keeps the paintings from being fully resolved. Each painting begins as a mindless finger drawing on an iPad. These taps, swipes, and scribbles are projected, traced, and reconstructed in acrylic, transforming instantaneous digital gestures into slow physical actions. Rather than correcting every irregularity, I allow stains, wobbly edges, drips, and unexpected shifts to remain, embracing the material resistance of paint and the unpredictability of the body. My process grew from living with a chronic illness. As my body became less reliable, I began using an iPad as an accessibility tool, allowing me to continue making work when traditional painting became physically overwhelming. The simple, mindless sketches recall the freedom of drawing as a child in MS Paint, where experimentation felt playful rather than high stakes. By reducing decisions and removing the pressure of perfection, I create a process that works with my body instead of against it. The paintings become a negotiation between control and surrender, allowing both the material and my body to participate in the outcome. The work slows down gestures that are normally designed to disappear across a screen. In doing so, it reveals the labor, vulnerability, and adaptation behind them. Through subtle optical tension, awkward relationships between forms, and colors that occasionally push toward visual fatigue, the paintings echo the heightened sensory experience of my own body while remaining open enough for viewers to bring their own experiences of illness, adaptation, and resilience. Painting has become both a way of understanding my body and a way of continuing to do the thing that has brought me joy throughout my life.