I trained as an architect before I trained as a painter, and I still build a canvas the way you build a structure — in layers, with weight, balance, and something load-bearing underneath. My work is texture-heavy and material-driven, built up through acrylic, sediment, and salvaged material until the surface carries as much as the image does. The ongoing Enviro/Mental series sits with reciprocity: what we do to the land, and what the land does back to us — floods, drought, the slower exchanges we don’t notice until they’ve already changed us.