A recent commission for a mourning family invited me into a space I wasn’t fully prepared for, it taught me something profound about what art can hold and the quiet role artists sometimes take on without even realizing it.

A moment of unexpected clarity in the midst of chaos. In late 2023, with war outside my window and a layoff I didn’t see coming, I picked up a paintbrush — and everything began to shift. What started as a way to cope slowly turned into something much bigger.