A collection of works created in 2025 utilizing Mixed Media materials.

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Beirut
January 4, 2025
42 cm x 59.5 cm
Materials: Art panel, Gouache, Acrylic paint and gel medium, Acrylic modeling paste, Sharpie marker.

I couldn’t get the images out of my mind. I had to paint it. I could have drawn it or digitally collaged it in Photoshop, but I really needed to use my hands for this.

The Folding Chair Coven is an international, intersectional womxn’s art coven. We span a full range of identities including religions. We can not, and never have, condoned violence of any kind.

Our coven has a member who lives in and is from Lebanon, who was living in Beirut at the time of the bombings in 2024. Every day, we would check in with her on our group chat to make sure she survived the night. The images, news clips, and personal videos she shared with us were devastating in her clear proximity to danger, and each day felt like 1,000 hours waiting to hear back from her. When it was finally over and she had been moved out of harm’s way, it finally felt safe to let our collective feelings out and make art about the experience. Both hers, and the experience we had shared across borders, religions, identities, and languages.

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Rise Up
February 16, 2025
45 cm x 60.2 cm
Materials: Repurposed MDF board, Chiyogami paper, Acrylic paint and gel medium, Gouache, Crayon, Oil Pastel, Sharpie marker, Fruit net.

This image came to mind in August 2024, when an Oarfish (Doomsday fish) was spotted on the surface off the coast of California. My immediate thought was, ‘F*ck, he’s going to win’, followed immediately by, ‘… but it’s bigger than him’.

As a person who lived nearly 10 years in Japan, I am well-versed in the concepts of Yokai, Oni, and other such spirits in Japanese culture and mythology that arrive as harbingers of doom. I have previously made works featuring the Amabie, Rokurokubi, and Yogen no Tori, three such creatures that carry varied associations with good or bad omens. To me, the Oarfish is a real-life Yokai and we should all take heed when they arise from the depths for us to lay eyes on.