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.
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
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.
Serene.
Awake.
Snowflakes on my hat.
I feel alive.
I’m home.
View of Bear Mountain Bridge
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.
2025 | Oil on Panel 25.5cm x 10cm
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 | 2025 | Egg tempera on panel 10cmx13cm (View from somewhere in Connecticut)
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
Baby | 2025 | Oil on Panel 4”x4”
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!