I view my art as a form of documentation that operates between fidelity and abstraction, capturing the synthesis between the literal and emotional core of a moment while centering the inner lives of my subjects. It allows me to indulge my nostalgia while articulating the depth of gratitude I feel towards the people in my life, who are at the center of most of my work, which consists primarily of portraiture. My relationships with the people I paint allows me to imbue a sense of romance and tenderness within my pieces. I dilute oil paints until they almost resemble watercolours and use translucent swathes of paint that drip and dissolve into one another, creating an atmosphere of ephemerality. Primarily borrowing from the tradition of Intimism, which at the time of its inception was concerned with ‘banal yet personal domestic scenes.’ Featuring, therefore, mostly women in their homes. It seeks to explore its subjects, through an emotive construction. It was also one of the premiere movements that insisted the viewer to gaze upon women not merely as an object of desire or proof of the status their men but for their internal world, which is what I aim to bring to the forefront in my project. I want to construct my friends against backdrops that convey their psyches, that invoke in the viewer an impulse to understand my subjects.  I want my subjects to be just out of reach, suspended in a soft haze that keeps them just shy of comprehension, evoking the experience of parsing through the memory of a moment. My relationships with the people I paint allows me to imbue a sense of romance and tenderness within my pieces. I aim to capture intimacy, and create a sense of romance around the quotidian