My work begins where distance ends.I paint the parts of people we rarely offer to another: their feet, their smell. Both demand proximity; both are invitations into intimacy. To paint these subjects, I must come close enough to notice what is usually private: the texture of skin, the trace of scent, the quiet geography of another body. These works are portraits of presence. They ask how we experience one another beyond the visible - through scent, through closeness, through the spaces where comfort and vulnerability meet. Each painting is not just a representation, but a record of shared air, of permission, of encounter. My practice is an exploration of what it means to be near - to translate the unseen, the unspoken, the unguarded aspects of human experience into form.