Somebody’s prize

In this series, I paint women at different stages — daughter, bride, lover, mother, grandmother — not as symbols, but as individuals expressing the quiet toll of living in a body that is continually evaluated, expected, and offered up for others.

A defining element of the series is the use of food as metaphor. Food appears not as nourishment, but as offering, as requirement; making the act of consumption impossible to ignore.

As I paint, I move through questions of identity, expectation, and survival — working to reveal not only the story of the woman on the canvas, but parts of my own. These figures are simultaneously many women and myself. The work becomes a dialogue between lived experience and shared recognition.

I believe art can fundamentally change viewers by interrupting habitual ways of seeing. My aim is to create a shift in awareness, a refusal to look away, and a renewed sense of responsibility toward what — and who — we are taught to consume.