Encaustic

My encaustic practice engages themes of grief, healing, and self-reclamation through processes of layering, preservation, and transformation. Working with wax as both a material and metaphor, I embed fragments of the past—discarded artworks, years of journal writings, and symbolic imagery—into luminous, stratified surfaces. These pieces act as sites of dialogue between former and present selves, where re-parenting, memory, and inter-generational experience are gently reworked and re-contextualized. Through the slow accumulation of marks, textures, and embedded materials, I explore self-inquiry as an embodied process, one that holds both rupture and repair. The work reflects a quiet, persistent optimism: a belief in the possibility of returning to wholeness, where even what has been discarded or wounded can be integrated into a renewed sense of connection and meaning.