TIDY is my art practice.

While studying to become a nurse, I realized my deepest sense of healing came from connecting to my creativity and spirituality.

To remember this truth, I began painting on canvas tote bags, inspiring the name Tidy Totes, and selling them around campus. What started as a simple way to create and connect gradually grew into an embodied healing practice encompassing abstract painting, sculptural ceramics, and interior design.

My work evolves as I do. Each creation is part of an ongoing story shaped by my Midwestern upbringing as a first-generation Filipino American, my career in mental health nursing, experiences of love, loss, and heartbreak, and coming home to myself over and over again.

I have come to understand that change is the only constant. Creation during these transitions has become my way of processing and healing. I am learning that life rarely offers a single definition or fixed meaning and that it can hold many truths at once.

My art allows me to explore these dualities and contradictions. It moves between playfulness and curiosity while making room for deep emotion and soul. I’m drawn to seasonal change, organic forms, and embracing imperfection. Each work begins with intention, then unfolds intuitively through flow.

Now based in Seattle, I’m devoted to continuing this practice through intuition, honesty, and trust.