Paper Airplanes is a conceptual painting series meant to bring awareness to mental wellness and emotional intelligence using the airplane as a metaphor for perspective. You can filter a situation through your lens of beliefs, reality depends on your perceptions and the filter you choose affects the world you see. Perceptions lead you to respond, react or surrender in a given situation and are something you control.

Transformation & possibility are apparent as the paper airplane manifested from the folding of a single sheet of paper.

I use this series as a vehicle to spread awareness about social & emotional learning as well as lifelong conscious awareness as good mental health is imperative to develop coping skills & resilience. I view this series as a vehicle that can help our society & especially our youth articulate and regulate emotions.

I also encourage the viewer to attach their own meaning to the paper plane.

Fly High! It’s what you were meant to do.

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