Laguna College of Art + Design

My narrative paintings explore a fantasy realm that I call the flooded world, loosely inspired by my home on the expansive floodplains of East Texas. Using the imagery of high water to capture a moment of disrupted reality, my paintings respond to anxieties surrounding climate change and personal isolation. My characters' journey through the flood traces a path inward, harnessing the language of fantasy to access the innermost pulses of joy that fuel the imagination even in crisis, like a buoy afloat on rising waters.

Both beautiful and dangerous, the shifting tides of the flood contain ethereal giants, mystical white snakes, well-clad anthropomorphic foxes, and myriad other fantastical creatures who bring notes of optimism and enchantment to the world.