Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was a creative child who explored a variety of artistic interests. After stepping away from creative practice during my teenage years, I reconnected with painting while attending The Oxbow School's summer arts program in Napa. This experience reignited my passion for art before my senior year of high school.

I later attended Parsons School of Design, where I initially studied Fine Arts before transitioning to Integrated Design to explore film, photography, fashion, and interdisciplinary media. Despite working across disciplines, I continually returned to painting, which remained the anchor of my practice and the most natural way I understood and communicated ideas.

During a semester abroad at the University of the Arts London, I revisited a documentary project I did that centered on the Luddite Club, a group of teenagers committed to living offline. Having lived without social media for many years myself, I felt deeply connected to their perspective and the realization that subculture can still exist outside of digital culture. Documenting their gatherings became a reflection on my own relationship to technology when I was their age, and strengthened my interest in creating work that resists digital dependence and artificial intelligence. My practice now aims to reframe the fast-paced, disposable nature of the digital age through the slow-paced, timeless medium of painting.