MAY DAY explores the symbolic power of the faery figure through ancient Irish mythology and a contemporary feminist lens. Drawing from the myth of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the work considers the entanglement of nature, femininity, and marginalization.

This body of work centers on an 18-foot, double-sided curved canvas populated by reimagined faery beings who shift across a spectrum of behaviors: nurturing and vengeful, benevolent and perilous. These figures operate within a space between reality and fantasy, where myth becomes a way to process both personal experience and inherited narratives.

Rather than idyllic or decorative, these faery forms embody transformation, resistance, and instability. Rooted in pre-Christian traditions, they reflect systems of belief shaped by oral history, imagination, and the unknown. With the rise of Christianity in Ireland, these figures were recast, absorbed into a framework that increasingly associated the feminine body with danger and control.

By reworking this mythology, the paintings examine how the faery has been used to both express and suppress feminine power. The work engages with ongoing tensions around visibility, autonomy, and the historical construction of the feminine as something to be contained, feared, or othered.