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“He Only Came Home for $5 Tuesdays”
32” x 36”
Mixed Media on Canvas
March 4, 2026
“He Only Came Home for $5 Tuesdays” (2026) is part of an ongoing series that examines the relationship between memory and place through fragmented memories of spaces my working-class family visited in Toronto in the early 2000s. The work draws on sparse memories of Tuesday night visits to the theatre with my father.
The piece reflects on how fleeting routines become embedded within personal memory. In revisiting this space, the work considers how familial influence, cultural taste, and identity quietly take shape through ordinary shared experiences.
“Välkommen hem” is how we say it in Swedish
32” x 36”
Mixed Media on Canvas
February 3, 2026
“Välkommen hem is how we say it in Swedish” (2026) is part of an ongoing series examining the relationship between memory and place through fragmented memories of spaces my working-class family visited in Toronto in the early 2000s. Focusing on IKEA, the piece draws on vivid sensory memories of IKEAs warehouse aisles, restaurant, and stage rooms where my sisters and I once played house.
Revisiting the space as an adult, I reflect on how a mass-produced retail environment came to shape my early imagination of home. The work considers how desire, class, and longing become embedded in everyday places, continuing to inform how home is imagined long after the memory itself has shifted.
कृपया मुझे याद रखिए
(Please remember me)
24 x 36
October 8, 2025
“Please Remember Me” (2025) is a depiction of fading memories inspired by my grandmother’s dementia. The piece visually entangles personal history with the larger cycle of loss and erasure through the construction of layered photographed collage and paint. The work challenges the notion of permanence in both public and private spheres as it asks what lives on? By making visible the instability of memory itself, the piece considers legacy, presence, and the inevitability of fading.
“Not Everything Is About You”
Acrylic and Paper on Wood Cradled Canvas
9” × 12” ×3 , 12” × 12” ×3
November 13 2025
“Not Everything Is About You” (2025) is a series of six mixed-media paintings that asks: “How do we hold space for our own pain while witnessing the world’s suffering?” Through layered canvases combining found urban imagery with childhood portraits, the work explores how empathy for global grief can blur one’s sense of self and quiet personal need.
This series examines the emotional conflict of living in a world where catastrophe is constant and visible. Each piece begins with images of public struggle, through street posters, graffiti, and fragments from city walls, over which I layer portraits of my younger self. The tension between these layers reflects an internal negotiation: when the world is grieving, where does our private pain belong? Rather than offering resolution, the works invites the viewers to consider the possibility of a compassion that makes room for both collective suffering and personal truth, without diminishing either.
“Vomit in my Bathtub”
30” x 36”
Acrylic on Canvas
March 4, 2025
“Vomit in my Bathtub” (2025) explores the fragility of identity in moments of vulnerability, memory, and silence. Drawn from a fragmented personal experience, it reflects how intimacy, shame, and uncertainty shape the way we reconstruct ourselves after disorienting events. The use of a warm primary color palette and stark black outlines contrasts emotional intimacy with dissociation, while the white space represents a sense of loss, a part of self left behind. Through this graphic, still composition, the work captures the tension between what is remembered, what is suppressed, and how these pieces inform our evolving sense of self.
“Boy in Red Pants”
30” x 36”
Acrylic on canvas
March 4, 2025
“Boy in Red Pants” (2025) represents the quiet beauty of cross-cultural connection in a city like Toronto, where identities constantly intersect. The boy in red pants, whose picture I carry in my sunflower phone case, is from a culture different from mine, yet through him, I’ve come to learn new histories, rituals, and ways of being that have shaped my own understanding of love and self. The phone case becomes more than a container for memories; it’s a symbol of how shared moments across cultures can redefine identity and belonging. Through pattern, flat color, and subtle repetition, the piece reflects the gentle blending of traditions and the intimate, transformative nature of multicultural relationships.
“Kent Senior Public School”
30” x 36”
Acrylic on Canvas
January 28, 2025
“Kent Senior Public School” (2025) is a visual commentary on gentrification in Toronto, specifically “Dufferin Grove”, the neighbourhood west of Downtown, that uses monochromatic colour palette to depict a photographic sense highlighting the now demolished historic 1907 school building at the corner of Bloor St W and Dufferin St in Toronto. The Bloor & Dufferin development is advertised as a pedestrian-oriented “unique urban living” opportunity for Ward 9 and the City, as well as another development plan to gentrify Dufferin Mall, the main shopping centre just south of Dufferin St and Bloor St, for those living in the community. They wish to include a new park between the “well-loved Dufferin Grove Park and Bloor Street West,” which currently resides in a large homeless encampment. These community changes displace long-term, lower-income residents and push vulnerable populations further to the margins, increasing the risk of erasing cultural heritage and intensifying housing insecurity. The piece critiques how the City frames safety and modernity as progress while sidelining the needs of the existing community.
“Divided by a Bedsheet”
32” x 40”
Acrylic on Canvas
January 27, 2025
“Divided by a Bedsheet” (2025) explores Black identity through the lens of sensory memory, focusing on the soundscape of hip hop and the physical and emotional spaces we carve out as our own. The piece was inspired by getting tattooed at Coffee and Clothing in Toronto’s East End. The work seeks to evoke that same sense of warmth and familiarity that I felt during this moment, reflecting on what it means to feel at home within spaces shaped by Black sound, aesthetic, and cultural resilience, even when the world outside feels fragmented.
“My Green and Yellow Crocs”
20” x 26”
Oil Pastel on Paper
January 20, 2023
“My Green and Yellow Crocs” (2023) captures a fleeting, mundane moment. Viewed from above, the perspective mimics the simple act of looking down at yourself, combined with the saturated colours that heighten the ordinary, making even this small gesture feel strange and vivid, as if the body is trying to remind itself it’s still here. The drawing speaks to the quiet rituals that hold us together, putting your shoes on, standing up, telling yourself that’s enough to keep going.
“What r u doing here?”
20” x 30”
Coloured Pencil on Paper
April 12, 2023
“What are you doing here?” (2023) is inspired by Piet Mondrian’s “Composition” works, reimagining his structured grid of primary-coloured boxes as a psychological frame. Distorted and expressive, the face looks downward with a sharp, judgmental gaze, challenging the viewer’s presence while also reflecting internal critique. Line variance plays a central role in distorting the figure, resisting the order and rigidity of the surrounding grid. This tension between structure and self becomes a quiet confrontation, turning Mondrian’s sense of harmony into something more personal, questioning, and emotionally charged.
“Neha”
30” x 36”
Acrylic on canvas
October 25 2022
“Neha” (2022) explores the quiet, unspoken emotional labour carried by women in diasporic families, where strength is expected and vulnerability is hidden. Neha stares back at me, her vacant eyes show this sense of exhaustion, stillness, and an inward turn. The echo of internal turbulence masked by calm and silence, reflecting how mental health and emotional complexity are frequently overlooked in cultural spaces that prioritize endurance over expression. Through this image, I confront the tension between care and silence, between being seen and being understood.
“Stuck Between the Walls at my Cubicle Job”
63.5” x 81.5”
India Ink and Coloured Pencil on Newspaper
October 31, 2022
“Stuck Between the Walls at my Cubicle Job” is a chaotic reflection on identity, conformity, and the overwhelming nature of modern life. Made entirely from newspapers collected on the day of its creation, this piece captures a snapshot of a specific moment in time, saturated with headlines, images, and noise. By drawing directly over the newsprint with my fingers, I inserted myself into narratives that so often feel impersonal or detached. The result is a messy, deeply human disruption of the sterile authority of print. In challenging the fixedness of the printed word, the artwork questions whose voices are heard, whose stories are told, and how we absorb the world around us without always choosing to. It’s a portrait of a day, a protest against erasure, and a desperate plea to stay human in a world that too often asks us not to be.
“Childhood Heroes”
24” x 36”
Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas
October 7, 2021
”Childhood Heroes” (2021) explores the theme of growing up without the support of parents. While children often seek guidance from trusted adults, such as parents, those facing neglect or abuse may turn elsewhere for inspiration. This painting draws on my admiration
for the Disney Princess Merida, a figure I looked up to in my own childhood. Her strength and the evolving bond with her mother resonated deeply with me, as it reflected the kind of relationship I longed for.
