Women are often told who to be before they can discover who they are.

Archetypes is a series of encaustic paintings that explores the roles, expectations, and contradictions imposed on women by society. Drawing on cultural myths, literary references, and personal truths, each piece gives form to a different archetype—some reverent, some rebellious, all revealing.

Through the luminous and layered medium of encaustic, these works expose the tensions between surface and substance, beauty and value, strength and silence. The figures are fragmented, masked, multiplied—performing joy, perfection, deference, sensuality—while something deeper presses forward. Beneath the polish: conflict, resilience, resistance.

Archetypes invites viewers to confront the frameworks we inherit, the myths we perpetuate, and the quiet ways we all participate in shaping or breaking the roles women are asked to play. These are not portraits. They are portraits-in-revolt.