2-D Art

I create watercolor, ink, and linocut art. One of my inspirations is a desire to overlay the natural world with words.

My work has been shown at the Footlight Gallery, Piano Craft Gallery, Potrero Hill Artist’s Showcase, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Colorful illustration of various birds, leaves, and a snail on a vibrant blue background, with red and yellow outlined details.

Skyworthy (2022)

Cyanotype, acrylic, oil pastel, permanent marker

This work is a veneration of the beauty within small creatures and moments—a cherishing of snails, birdsong, sunlight, and the leaves and flowers that branch alongside us. It is an invitation to find golden moments within slow ones.

A collage featuring cosmic imagery, including a nebula, sky with clouds, and a chameleon outlined in gold, along with handwritten notes and gold paint splatters.

Chameleon (2023)

Cyanotype, acrylic, magazine, marbled paper, permanent marker

A little known gem of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks is his bestiary, which contains fantastical descriptions of animals ranging from ostriches (“food of commanders”) to cranes (“loyal to the king”). The description of the chameleon is particularly surreal—of an animal that “flies above the clouds, and there finds an air that is so rarefied as to be incapable of supporting any bird that would follow it.” This collage honors the shapeshifters that gain their wings in flux.

Collage with torn magazine paper, gold leaf accents, a black and white photo of a woman with wings, and various snippets of text including phrases about stars, moon, and fire. The composition is abstract and layered.

Bird Divination (2022)

Magazine, gold leaf, glue

Mixing found poetry and images, an anonymous woman from a sunscreen advertisement falls from the sky. A question I asked myself while making this piece is what to do while the world is burning, particularly as a woman. Some answers: maintaining beauty amidst the urge for survival, transmuting falling into flying, and setting things aflame to create extra light.

Black and white drawing of a person with a buffalo head and long hair, sitting on a rock and reaching out to a woman with long hair and a dress, surrounded by swirling lines, stars, and fish in a stylized, surreal style.

Cowherd and the Weaver Girl (2025)

Linocut, ink

This print depicts a famous Chinese folk tale about a forbidden romance between a human cowherd and a celestial weaver. Separated by the Milky Way, they meet only once a year, when the gods take pity on them and allow magpies to form a bridge for them to cross. I first encountered this myth as a college student in my Asian American Literature class, and think about this myth when I consider that even loved ones halfway across the world can look up at the same sky as I do.

Watercolor painting of two human eyes with blue irises above a cluster of figs, some sliced open showing pink and purple interior, with the word 'celebration' faintly written in the background.
Watercolor painting of a person with blue eyes above a stack of cookies with chocolate chips, with handwritten notes and date 'August 16, 1977' at the bottom.

Last Supper (2022)

Watercolor, pencil

The Last Supper series features watercolor paintings of famous people’s last meals, while sketches of their cause of death float in the background. The series is about mortality, sensory pleasure, and the speed with which celebrities are built up, torn down, grieved, and forgotten.