eris ghoul

Artist Statement

I live with autism, major depressive disorder, severe anxiety, and PTSD. These are truths that often feel too heavy to speak aloud. Painting is where the silence breaks, with every stroke, chaos is shaped into color and pain into form. What could not be said becomes visible. Pain becomes paint, tears become color. My work is not a display of wounds, but a record of survival. Mental health can appear in brief, noticeable moments, but it is also a constant interior landscape. Through my art, I invite viewers into the space between suffering and creation, where vulnerability is not weakness, and where lived experience transforms into vision.