“Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Happy Birthday)” • Acrylic on Canvas • 2025 

This is kind of that feeling of your friends taking you out for your birthday in college. It’s weirder than it was when you were growing up, and your parents are nowhere in sight. The context feels a little different than it ever has. You’re a little worried your friends forgot, but even the littlest effort ends up meaning just as much as a grand gesture you’d expect being super little.