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Recently, I have been practicing inconveniencing myself. Choosing to wait, even when I do not have to. The moment it clicked happened while I was driving. A song I did not particularly enjoy came on, and without thinking, I reached to skip it. Again. And again. Until I realized my phone was not connected. It was the radio. There was no next. It made me aware of how carefully convenience has been woven into our lives. How little mental energy we now spend on things that once

Whenever I am asked about how I paint, I usually have a hard time putting it into words. When I paint, I start by releasing expectations. Whenever I am stuck, it is usually because my hands feel heavy and my thoughts even heavier. I almost never begin with a sketch or a reference, except for my self-portrait series. This adds another layer of freedom. Naming the final piece only exists after it is born. After its birth, it can be named. I name it based on how it feels to me

When I talk about my inner eye, I like to think about the clarity of images. Say I ask you to imagine a red star. How clear is that red star to you? Is it three dimensional? Is it coloured? Is it placed in a setting? When I try to visualize something while awake, what I see is usually Gray static, something fuzzy, almost incomplete. My dreams however are the complete opposite. Ever since I started journaling my dreams every morning, I noticed they became clearer by the d