The painting series, Two Dimensional Dreams, portrays overlapping stories about violence, innocence, and identity. In my paintings, I tell complex stories through dreamlike realities where the cacophony of events are both simultaneous and chronological. Through fantasy, I can portray the horrors of reality and of being at war with oneself and with the world. Through simultaneous narratives, I can portray the chaos and dichotomy of existence. My art communicates stories of violence and of experiencing violence, stories of relishing in justice, reclaiming identity, and rebelling against destructive forces. I explore the dialectic of memory and fantasy, expressing complex visual narratives of the rich, disjointed emotions that play into our experience. My work focuses on the intersections of worlds, where the magical and malevolent collide in chaos and juxtapose each other, sometimes subverting the beautiful into horror and the ugly into the divine. Lately, I have been creating dreams inside the nightmares, and finding victory and comfortable solace within an incomprehensible realm in order to combat the idea that life is hopeless or without meaning. I aim to create comfort and discomfort within the viewer by questioning the definitions of good and evil, human and monster, and the rainbow of experiences beyond the black and white. I intertwine my fine art and game design disciplines to explore false realities as interactive pieces to further convey the intricacies of metaphorical worlds.