“Real bands save fans, real fans save bands”, that’s the heartbeat under everything I make.  My large scale oil paintings and immersive installations are love letters to music, acts of devotion, survival, and connection. I question what music looks like when it slips into the visual world, translating sound into scale and color until a song can be held in your hands.

My work orbits the band 5 Seconds of Summer, whose music has surrounded me for over a decade. Through them, I explore fandom not as escape but as endurance, a framework for belonging, proof that sound can be survival. When unpredictability defines so much of my world, their presence becomes an anchor, proof that comfort can be consistent, steady, loud, and alive.

In projects like Seeing Sound and Four Frequencies, I map the sensory language of music through color association and repetition. Each hue, material, and mark responds to the way a song feels in my body: its pulse, its texture, its emotional aftermath. I use various materials that help collapse the hierarchy between fine art and the everyday, such as cardboard, tablecloths, and memorabilia. 

My installations refuse silence. I allow the work to move beyond the surface and into lived experience by incorporating pieces of my own music collection: posters, vinyls, guitars, and tour confetti, etc.. What would otherwise be considered mundane objects of life are relics of my survival. I use these elements to examine the connection that music bridges between people.  

Ultimately, I’m asking the questions, how can visual art echo the way music makes us feel seen? And how can a painting hum with the same frequency and electricity as a song that once saved your life?