Growing up, art was always the place where I felt most like myself. It was how I processed emotions, escaped pressure, and expressed things I didn’t always know how to say out loud. But as I got older, I slowly started believing the idea that creativity wasn’t practical — that art was something you loved, not something you built a life around.

So I chose the “safe” path and became an engineer.

On paper, everything looked right. I earned the degree, worked in a respected corporate career, and did what I thought I was supposed to do. But deep down, I constantly felt out of place. I struggled with my identity for years because I was living a life that looked successful externally, while internally feeling disconnected from myself.

Over time, I started realizing that the version of me I had become was so far from the creative person I used to be. My spark was fading, my mental health was suffering, and I felt like I was constantly trying to force myself into environments that never truly felt aligned.

Coming back to art changed everything for me.

What started as reconnecting with a childhood passion became something much deeper — a way to heal, rebuild confidence, and rediscover who I actually was outside of expectations and titles. Creating art made me feel present again.

Today, I create mixed media mirror artwork, acrylic portraits, and landscape paintings centered around emotion, reflection, and human connection. My broken mirror pieces especially represent transformation to me — the idea that even broken things can become beautiful in a completely new way.

More than anything, I want my work to make people feel something. To feel seen. To pause for a moment and reconnect with themselves the same way art helped me reconnect with myself.