She Began to See a Forrest Made of the Blues,
August 2022, Watercolor, 9 x 12 in


Child Free,
Called the River

2024-2025



︎ View Series




A space of inquiry into perception, form, and the ways we experience the world.
This practice is interdisciplinary by nature, moving fluidly across mediums and approaches. Each series is a chapter in that exploration, an unfolding conversation between material, process, and perception.

Artist Statement & Previous Works




 ︎ Sensotasia

2022 - 2025



“It is the passage from the physical to the phenomenal, from quantitative to qualitative, from objective to subjective, stemming from a trajection…”


Berque, A. (2016). The perception of space or a perceptive milieu? L’Espace Géographique (English Edition), 45(2), 1–14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26213781





One does not simply navigate their environment. As organisms, we exist within a continuum of relational exchange with every stimulus we encounter. The subject's role in this process is not just that of a witness. All parties are actively engaged in the process of finding meaning.

To perceive marks a pivotal moment—when the environment becomes more than mere data. Beyond calculation or stimulus, perception transforms both the perceiver and the perceived, altering their mutual understanding of the world.

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To perceive marks a pivotal moment—when the environment becomes more than mere data. Beyond calculation or stimulus, perception transforms both the perceiver and the perceived, altering their mutual understanding of the world.

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Guided by a lifelong curiosity, Simone explores the intersection between our ecology of perception and visual narrative. “How do we know…?” was a question that echoed throughout Simone’s youth, becoming the seed of a sustained inquiry into how perception is shaped—both individually and communally.

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  ︎ Threads

2019-2020





Images in her practice speak to the unique ways she perceives her environment through the lens of sensory processing disorder. Symbols, narrative, and patterning capture a reality shaped by fewer filters—where less means an expanded capacity to take in more.  

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Each symbol references objects that have served as grounding points, markers of orientation within an otherwise overwhelming field of stimuli. In the act of world building they become a thread that anchors the world Simone builds.