Paintings

Over the summer of 2024 I got super into painting. After reading The Pocket by Thich Nhat Hanh, I started thinking a lot about rooting myself in the present and romanticizing life. Partly due to a renewed sense of worldly wonder, and partly due to a fear of losing my eyesight from being a CS major, I started staring at nature with more intensity.

I'm not chasing photo-realism with my paintings. I want to use painting as a tool to portray the world and my experiences through my own lens. Photography often falls short of how I experience things — it's lacking that personal touch. I hope that by painting my experiences, I can think more deeply about them, reflect how they made me feel, and put that onto the canvas.