Artist Statement:

SND’s work exists at the threshold of emotion, memory, and identity—where language falters and the body remembers. Through layered, expressive paintings, she explores the nuanced spectrum of human experience: grief, rage, longing, confusion, joy. SND’s visual language weaves together portraiture, botanicals, and symbolic objects—each selected for its capacity to carry emotional weight, embody memory, and serve as a vessel for inner narrative. Her compositions hold tension between chaos and control, beauty and distortion, clarity and emotional overwhelm. Each piece becomes both a mirror and a release—an artifact of inner dialogue made visible.

SND’s artistic journey began in a time of profound personal unraveling. Without formal training, she turned to painting as a form of therapy, a tactile way to process emotions that once felt too overwhelming to name. What began as a quiet act of survival evolved into a powerful method of self-reclamation. Her process is intuitive and physical, favoring emotional truth over polished precision. Working in layers, she builds, erases, and rebuilds—allowing the painting to evolve as a reflection of her inner world.

Emotional complexity lies at the core of SND’s practice. Each painting becomes a soft rebellion against the binaries that fragment our inner lives—good and bad, light and dark, beauty and pain. Rather than turning away from discomfort, she leans into its language, honoring every feeling as a hue in the shifting palette of what it means to be alive. Her work offers a gentle confrontation: an invitation to sit with what is unresolved, to soften toward the self, and to hold space for feeling in its fullest, most nuanced expression.

Straddling the intimate and the archetypal, SND’s work gives form to the invisible architecture of feeling. Her practice extends a quiet provocation: to slow down, to look inward, and to encounter the self not as a fixed identity, but as an unfolding landscape of emotion and becoming.