This work began in 2018, a few years after my mother passed, though the ache it responds to was there long before. In the wake of her death, I found myself searching, not only for her, but for myself. I wanted to honor her life, to understand her more fully, to connect with who she was as a woman, not just as my mother. At the same time, I was struggling to express my own inner life, how deeply I feel, how much I carry. I’ve never had the words for it, so I turned to images.

Through quiet and intuitive making, random bouts of inspiration, from seemingly nowhere at times, I began layering textures, family photographs, journal fragments, flowers, moonlight, water, shadow, skin. These elements became metaphors for memory and emotion, for the feminine and our origins, and the search for where we belong.

I’ve always felt a bit outside the world, deeply sensitive, porous to experience. My mother and I shared a struggle with mental health, with feeling ‘too much’ at times. In some ways, this work is our conversation, unfinished, evolving, tender.

These images move through grief, but it doesn’t end there. They explore inheritance, the genetic, emotional, and psychological legacies that shape us, and how we transform pain.

Alchemized Inheritance is a holding space for what’s unspoken, unresolved, inherited, and sublimed.