This body of work centers on solitary female figures moving through forested environments informed by places I have known intimately throughout my life. These spaces are not specific locations, but emotional and psychological terrains shaped by memory, lived experience, and a deep familiarity with being alone in the woods. They are places where the body encounters uncertainty, vulnerability, and change.

The forest is not simply a setting, but a lived experience. It can feel expansive and sheltering, yet also unfamiliar and unpredictable. It holds beauty and danger, refuge and threat. Within these spaces, the figure moves through an environment that reflects both the external world and an internal emotional landscape—a place where awareness is heightened and uncertainty must be navigated.

My relationship to the forest is informed by both personal experience and its long history in art—as a place of myth, transformation, refuge, violence, and the unknown. Across cultures and centuries, forests have held human fears, desires, memories, and imaginings. These associations are not illustrated directly, but remain present within the work as emotional undercurrents.

Through painting and drawing, I explore what it means to move through uncertain terrain—both within the landscape and within ourselves. The forest becomes a space where vulnerability and resilience coexist, where beauty and unease are held together, and where the act of moving forward becomes an ongoing negotiation with the unknown.