RAINBOW CATHARSIS (2020–ongoing)
Large-scale works

Rainbow Catharsis begins with the understanding that trauma is rarely singular. My own childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood were marked by violence, sexual abuse, and rape—punctuated by brief moments of joy. Those good moments are the ones that appear in family albums, creating the illusion of stability; the darker experiences were never photographed.

These works confront that absence. They form a personal yet collective narrative of anger, pain, powerlessness, and resistance, while inviting viewers to reflect on their own histories. Humor surfaces in the text and imagery—not to diminish the weight of trauma, but to diffuse it, offering a small catharsis and an opening toward empowerment.

The pieces are life-size or larger, built from hand dyed and painted found fabrics, analogue snapshots, and discarded family photographs. English text cuts through the surfaces with directness and dry irony, echoing the uneven process of recovery.

The saturated palettes—infused with the sun-bleached sensibility of California, where my early visual language was formed—combine with intentional imperfections and urgent mark-making. The feminist in me refuses to sanitize trauma or make it visually polite; the work stays raw, unresolved, and honest.

Rainbow Catharsis becomes both release and reclamation—a vivid, messy confrontation with what the body remembers and what it can finally let go.