I internalize my actions, experiences, emotions, and the environments around me as sources of inspiration. Through various printmaking processes, I imbue my works with a vulnerability that is difficult to verbalize but is best said through the manner in which I manipulate matrices and allow ink and paper to speak. My decision to move from Hawaiʻi, my home, has instilled displacement and an emotional separation from all aspects of familiarity. An urge to create work that reclaims ties to my Native Hawaiian ancestry, which has been greatly underappreciated, and cultural continuity, which has been long since lost.