We spend over half of our lives sleeping and yet, we all have an individualized way of doing so. Whether we are alone, with a partner, young old, every single person experiences this private, vulnerable state every night. I aim to capture this relatable sense of vulnerability through paint. My work shows a variety of painting styles to capture faces and bodies, often through an interplay of distortion and realism. I typically set up a very zoomed in composition to make the viewer stop and see a familiar scene, but from a unique perspective. I aim to realistically render faces, objects, and bodies but abstract them slightly to allow our brains to work to understand what it is seeing.

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