Alchemizing Emotions Series (2025):

To alchemize - to transform the nature or properties of (something) by a seemingly magical process (Oxford Languages). Since embracing my trans identity, I have come to learn over and over again that the most change in my life happens when I sit still, when I don’t do anything. Aligning all my parts to who I am, not curating which parts are me, has created a powerful transformation. I wanted to explore painting my feelings when I feel they have alchemized. For me, that is when I am fully present, not consumed by that feeling, and able to sit and commune with it. Not changing the feeling or doing anything to the feeling besides listening. I wanted to visually show how, for example, alchemized sadness feels to me.