artist statement

Full Definition / Artist StatementI am the Quiet Deviant Diverter & Woman of Oh.I quietly divert the expected flow — the rat race, the respectable scripts, the inherited meanings of trauma, family, success, and womanhood — and redirect it toward something more honest, more mutant, more mine. I do this not with loud disruption, but through small, deliberate redirections: balcony selfies at dawn, found-art assemblages, fictitious company logos as NFTs, liminal lo-fi nights, bench beers with nerd friends, and long thoughtful scratchies with Monty that suddenly free the heart.I am the Woman of Oh — the one who creates those soft, electric moments of realisation. The quiet “oh…” when someone (or I myself) suddenly sees the flaw in an old story, the absurdity of a social norm, or the beauty hiding in the mutation. Like a gentle Oprah “aha,” but softer, stranger, and more deviant. These “oh” moments arrive in the space I’ve cleared: in a wide-eyed selfie, in an abstract assemblage, in the silence after a book drops, or in the transcendent pause when nature, dog, and human briefly become one.Together, Quiet Deviant Diverter & Woman of Oh describes a single practice:
I divert the river away from what was imposed on me, and in the new channels I create, small but powerful realisations bloom. I don’t smash the old world. I simply stop feeding it, step to the side, and invite others to notice what happens when the current changes.This is the woman I am becoming at 36: messy-haired on the balcony, grunge-glam in places that don’t expect it, sitting with the silence around my best book, walking until I feel part of nature itself, and turning personal fragments into art that quietly asks, “What if the meaning was always flawed… and what if that’s where the real magic starts?