“Stuck” is a body of work meant to represent my avoidant nature as a person. I am someone that freezes under pressure, often feeling as if I am a deer caught in the headlights of time and choices. Feeling as if life is passing me by as I continue to contemplate my next move. Making my decisions by not making any at all.
I am in a field that has no direct path, and the openness to possibility often feels overwhelming when it comes to head with my avoidant nature. I wanted this artwork to explore my avoidance, my freeze response to overwhelming situations, and my own mental battles with feeling as if time is passing too fast.
I want the viewers to have a feeling of being stuck themselves when they look at these pieces. Many of which use heavy and obvious patterns that you can get lost in to create this mental trap.
Stuck
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This painting is the heart of the collection “Stuck.” This series is all about my avoidant nature as a person, often feeling stuck as I pick my next move. When I am under pressure I usually find myself freezing as a response, similar to that of a deer.
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
Deer Heart
This piece is meant to represent feeling stuck in life from comparing how your progress is going with others. I’ve always had a mindset that as long as I’m doing relatively okay in life compared to people similar to me, then I am doing okay. As I’ve entered adulthood I’ve realized this is not a fair way to compare success, as we are all on our own paths that look different. Without having this relative marker of what I should be doing I revert back into indecisiveness with a lack of movement forward.
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
How Green is Your Grass?
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
I’m Comfortable Here
Depicted is a version of my bed room, a place where I am comfortable. I wanted this piece to be about being stuck in your current life because you are comfortable there.
This piece is similar in meaning to “I’m Comfortable Here” and alludes to being stuck somewhere because you are comfortable. I decided houses to represent this feeling, a home being where you are comfortable but can also see your neighbors house and compares its size, wondering to yourself if you stopped trying to be greater than where you started. This painting is meant to ask the question if this where you want to stay and did you stop trying to bigger out of comfort.
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
When Did We Stop?
This piece is about being stuck in a moment before hard conversations or waiting for a response from someone else before you can move forward. The two people in the piece have a hard time facing each other but are still both aware of each other’s presence, one waiting for the other to turn around.
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
I’m Waiting for You to Turn Around
This piece is meant to represent set backs that you caused yourself. It is self reflective in nature, as I wonder to myself did I create the roadblocks in my life? Are all of my obstacles just mental cages of my own creating? How has my own overthinking kept me stuck where I am?
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
Did I Build Every Cage?
This work is meant to represent feeling like I’m out of place in my current life. Knowing that I am growing out of an old life, needing to enter one that can “fit” me better than what I’ve grown accustomed too. Growing is uncomfortable but it’s also uncomfortable to stay in the same spot forever.
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
I’m too Big for Here Now
This piece is meant to represent the loop I find myself stuck in with technology. How much more intentional could I be with my time if I was not constantly distracted by a screen? But also not being able to let go of any of it because of my addiction to it as well as the feeling that I need it for to share my art.
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
The Loop, Again?
My fear of not knowing what comes next adds into my feelings of being stuck. What if the future is not as good as my current life? What if I make a decision that pulls me back rather than springs me forward? If I never look what is on the other side of the door of a risky decision, if I never make them, I can stay comfortable here. I can stay stuck here.
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025
The Other Side of the Door
Due to my worries of what my life will look like in the future, I often hold myself back. I believe in following intuition to follow your life path and this painting is questioning if I follow my intuition correctly. If my life is not what it should be because I ignore intuition at times. It ask the question if I caused my own life to be misaligned from what it should be?
24 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
2025