I use my work as a platform to combine psychology and art by creating realistic portraiture through a psychological lens. Within the human brain, there is a section, unlike any other area, that is dedicated solely to facial processing and recognition. Humans are naturally drawn to nuances of other faces, which explains my incessant urge to want to paint them.

My work shows a variety of painting styles to capture faces, often through an interplay of distortion and realism. I aim to realistically render faces and objects, but abstract them slightly to allow our brains to work to understand what it is seeing. I paint two portraits and then cut them up and weave them together to distort the image, making us question where facial features are and how many we are seeing. Or I paint a still life with perpendicular mirrors, distorting space through unfamiliar and confusing reflections.

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I hope to combine science and art to more fully understand their differences, but also to understand how much they play off one another and allow for a unique perspective on the world.