Journal

A place to document what I'm noticing, making, and wondering about.

  • “Skin”

    discovering two new loves: 1) painting with wet charcoal and 2) painting on raw canvas! as a creative there’s always an internal conflict between doing what feels good internally vs making something that looks good externally — ie, the process vs the product. all…


  • My new calligraphy teacher

    When I signed up for online private lessons to learn Chinese calligraphy, I knew this was just a temporary way to test the waters. If I wanted to commit fully to this practice, I needed a true community, and a sense of belonging (more…


  • “Follow Me There”

    NEW PIECE!!! this might be my favourite painting i’ve ever done 🥹❤️ and the biggest. with the extra studio space i was able to paint on a bigger canvas and unsurprisingly LOVED IT!! the freedom of movement is unlike anything else, i mean what…


  • “Electric” triptych and “Clarity”

    Abstract layers WIP 💖 recently i realized that the way i’ve been creating art is based off some romanticized ideal of how and what an artist “should” create. which is kind of ridiculous because ummmm i didn’t quit my 9-5 just to be bound…


  • Learning Chinese Calligraphy

    I started learning Chinese brush calligraphy about a month ago. As a kid I learned Chinese pencil calligraphy when I was learning how to write Chinese characters, but I’ve never picked up brush calligraphy even though I’ve always thought it was really beautiful and…