Coming Soon!

When you believe, dreams come true :)

To Make a Life

Refugio | Oil on Panel | 9”x12” | 2026

Maybe there is no purpose or destiny or a higher being.

I am just one person in a sea of many,

living, loving, failing and falling.

And yet, no matter how much I’m hurting,

I find myself getting back up every time,

lifted up by an urge I don’t fully understand

called upon to live out my purpose:

I’m making a life—

a life that overflows with love in my heart

when I close my eyes at night.

Once Upon A Time

Others stood on the same ground

Decades and centuries and forever ago

Staring out at the same trees that have witnessed history

To make tomorrow a better day

With love, patience, and commitment

For others who will come after.

I Left My Heart in Florida | Oil on Panel | 9”x12” | 2026

On the Edge of Something New | Oil on Panel | 9”x12” | 2026

Inching Forward

I think there’s so much to learn from plants—they’re often extremely fragile, yet so resilient. They inch forward and upward, filling vast spaces with vivacious colors.

My mom has about a dozen pot of plants in a small apartment in Seoul. She told me this winter that the grandfather I’d never known had a green thumb. He’s a man I know only from photographs as he had passed away early from cancer. She remembers him fondly, as a caring father who had shown her how to tend to a family of potted plants.

I wonder if a part of him lives through me.

We are two generations apart and have never met in this world, yet I feel connected by an invisible string.

Winter is Here

Serene.

Awake.

Snowflakes on my hat.

I feel alive.

I’m home.

View of Bear Mountain Bridge

Kiitos

2025 | Oil on Board 7"x5"

Instead of thinking about what I don’t have or what I am not, I’m going to spend each day of this year believing that I can bring in what feels right.

I see my five-year-old niece waving her princess wand.

My Sanctuary

Spannocchia is a secluded place near Florence, Italy, where I found myself in 2019 and 2025 going through transitional periods in my life. In the quiet of the woods, I let go of the burdens I’d been carrying for a very long time. Unloading what I had accumulated, the new emptiness came as a warm welcome, as a chance to heal the hurts I had tucked away for so long, no longer afraid to come home to myself.

To want less

be more

full on a slice,

content

without a whole.

Sauna Weather

I’m on a decluttering spree, unburdening like trees that have shed their leaves for the season, patiently waiting for the sound of a free-flowing stream.

I’m on a decluttering spree, holding onto only the driest logs to burn down all I‘ve ever known.

I’m on a decluttering spree, running out of a sauna deep in the woods, making snow angels on the forest floor, feeling every prickle of snow against my skin. Soft, naked and oh so happy.

** FOREST ** MOTHER ** TWO WORDS FROM A REIKI HEALER ** FINLAND 2022

Her Name is Baby

I read that looking at pictures of cute dogs for just five minutes can positively impact your mood and well-being (Source: Psychology Today - take it or leave it). If you’re feeling dreary this week, I hope this brings you a little joy. Baby is one of the cutest dogs I’ve seen, though only through pictures. She’s moving down from NJ to FL in a few weeks, along with two fluffy cats called Bella and Tyson. I hope she gets to run around the beach and enjoy every minute of it!