My research and studio practice are grounded in participatory art, creative lineage, and community-based inquiry. Through long-term projects that combine storytelling, movement, archival research, and collective making, I explore how artistic knowledge is transmitted across generations and how creative confidence is formed through relationship and place. These projects include archival studies of creative origins, walking as artistic methodology, cyclical mandala-making rooted in seasonal rhythms, and narrative profiles of artists and cultural stewards whose stories invite others to begin creating. Together, this body of work forms an integrated research program examining art as a relational practice that fosters belonging, reflection, and sustained engagement with making.