“Smile, They Told Her” hints at the tension between innocence and threat—a reminder of how we learn to protect ourselves in a predatory world.

Darling Unbecoming is a series of paintings exploring the female body as a site of contradiction — simultaneously ornamental and dangerous, cultivated and resistant. A feminine monster of sort.

The figures in these works are built from carnivorous and toxic botanicals: Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, and poisonous medicinal herbs. The female form has long been shaped by external forces — trained toward beauty, softness, and passivity. These paintings ask what happens when that form starts growing teeth.

The works don't offer resolution. The figures are neither victims nor predators in any clean sense. They are organisms adapting — developing the tools available to them within the conditions they were given.