about

I am an abstract painter working under the name Brain Trip Studio. My work explores thought in motion. The moments where cognition fragments, emotions surface, and meaning is felt before it is fully formed.

A year ago, my life looked very different. I was a physician working in healthcare strategy, moving quickly and achieving what I thought I was supposed to want. From the outside it made sense. On the inside, something felt increasingly misaligned.

I took some time off from my corporate work. What followed was a period of stillness, questioning, and reflection. It wasn’t comfortable, but it created space to listen to parts of myself I had long ignored.

Somewhere in that space, I started painting.

What began as a way to calm my mind became a place to process, explore, and find moments of relief when everything else felt uncertain. Brain Trip Studio emerged from that time, shaped by both disruption and discovery.

Through layered mark-making, disrupted surfaces, and restrained use of color, my paintings capture the tension between control and release. Each piece holds traces of interruption, pressure, and quiet persistence, reflecting the mental residue left behind by intense internal states.

My practice is intuitive rather than illustrative. I work without predetermined outcomes, allowing structure to emerge through process, erasure, and repetition. The result is work that feels architectural yet vulnerable. Composed, but never resolved.

I live and work between disciplines, maintaining a parallel life in healthcare and art. Painting remains my space for thinking without language.