Artist Statement

Outsider is a multidisciplinary art project exploring what it means to exist outside the expected. Through painting, printmaking, street art, writing, and design, the work combines pop culture, political critique, personal mythology, and lived experience into a visual language of resistance.

Through recurring symbols like the alien, California poppies, and the Statue of Liberty, this body of work examines identity, survival, and the razor’s edge between being visible and invisible. The alien is a self-portrait, reflecting isolation, transformation, panic, and moving through the world feeling disconnected and out of place, caught between not wanting to live and not being ready to die. Liberty stands as both promise and contradiction, freedom mythologized, fractured, and questioned. Poppies emerge as quiet resilience, symbols of survival blooming through chaos.

The alien paintings were developed alongside a poem,  grounding the work in a personal narrative that moves between language and image.