(Slowly) Dipping back into fine arts…

My high school thesis was rooted in fine arts, heavily inspired by artists like Robert Rauschenberg, whose work dismantled traditional boundaries between disciplines. In college, I shifted toward digital and technology-focused studies, but over time, I felt the pull back to something more tactile, more physical. Last year, I returned to making art, and in doing so, discovered a deep love for found objects and the questions they raise: What is art? What can it be?

Challenging that question feels essential to me. When artists resist inherited definitions, the work becomes something more: innovative, provocative, alive. The boundaries of "art" expand, and with them, the range of voices and perspectives that get to exist within it.

"Returning Home"

The ocean has always grounded me. Across the many countries and cultures I've moved through, water has been the one constant, a feeling of arrival, of stillness. It represents freedom, purity, and the quiet truth that everything is always changing. This series is a metaphor for two homecomings at once: a return to my fine arts roots, and a return to the place within myself where I feel most whole.