Anger storms

between me and things,

transfiguring,

transfiguring.

Marge Piercy, 1982

Excerpt from “A Just Anger, Circles on the Water”

I am drawn to the continuous patterns of growth, decay, and regeneration — natural cycles that mirror the processes of womanhood, identity, and grief. These states of transformation serve as metaphors within my work, where personal and archetypal narratives intertwine. My practice is shaped by an interest in how inherited stories form identity. Over the past year, I found myself repeatedly returning to the narrative of Eve and the serpent, seeking to reclaim her not as the origin of humanity’s fall, but as a bearer of wisdom. In these paintings, the encounter between the woman and the snake is reframed as luminous and benevolent, an exchange guided by forces of metamorphosis, protection, and ancestral knowledge.

Transfigurations traces the dual nature of grief, presenting it as a cyclical process in which destruction and regeneration coexist. Through fire, forests, and snake symbolism, this work reimagines death not as an ending, but as a transformative cycle of shedding, emergence, and renewal.