The Art of Becoming: GENESIS COLLECTION

My Testimony in Textures

The Genesis Collection began in the stillness of the pandemic.

It was a season where everything slowed and silence became both mirror and teacher.

I didn’t plan to create a collection. I was simply trying to breathe again.

At first, the work was heavy. Each canvas held layers of paint, emotion, and memory pressed together until they cracked. It was how I carried what I couldn’t say. Every mark became a release, a quiet conversation between what was breaking and what was rebuilding.

As someone who experiences the world through a neurodivergent lens, I feel everything in layers. Sound, color, texture — they overlap, collide, and echo. Painting became a way to translate that sensory intensity into form. The textures reflected my inner landscape long before I realized they were also becoming my style.

Gold appeared slowly, first as a way to mend what had split apart. Over time it became its own language, a way to trace what endured.

As years passed, the paintings grew lighter. The layers stayed, but they became intentional — no longer a weight, but a language of presence. The act of painting shifted from control to understanding.

The Genesis Collection is a visual testimony of that passage from weight to light, from survival to stillness, from noise to clarity. Every canvas holds a fragment of that becoming, a record of feeling deeply and learning to shape it with intention.

What remains is my testimony in textures, a story of becoming told in layers of light and time.