"Colouring Inside the Lines" is a personal and artistic exploration of how identity—especially as a woman—is shaped, confined, and sometimes erased by external expectations. Through this series, I confront the outlines imposed on me and others, using the human form as both a literal boundary and a site of resistance. My inspiration draws from classical studies of the body—Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and anatomical illustrations—where the human figure is dissected, measured, idealized. These references symbolize both the pursuit of understanding and the impulse to control. In my work, I reclaim these lines, transforming them from instruments of constraint into frameworks for expression.
Light, color, and movement become my tools to express what spills beyond those lines: emotion, memory, autonomy. As an artist, I’m interested in the space between presence and disappearance—how we exist both within and beyond what is seen or allowed. This work is my way of asking: who draws the lines, and why must we stay inside them?
