I am Vanee Dusoruth. I live and work in Los Angeles as an artist and writer. My practice centers on translating abstract thought, emotional states, and imagined worlds into visual and narrative form. I am interested in how stories and images can create space for reflection, recognition, and quiet confrontation.

As far as I can remember, I have been drawn to the abstract, the psychological, and the uncanny. I have a curiosity about the relationship between our deeper emotional life, the imaginative structures we build to understand it, and how these all come together in our minds. This tension between the human and the invented continues to shape my approach.

In 2022-2024, I experimented with digital art, exploring topics of grief and vulnerability under the moniker Oli Aster. I have decided to archive those works and focus my attention on my new creative endeavors.

After two years of exploration, I made a deliberate shift inward. My resulting works are more colorful, abstract, and at times deliberately absurd. This is a reflection of this shift in my perspective - a strong urge to seek joy and happiness in everyday life and the mundane.

I see art as a way of moving through a world that offers no fixed meaning or solace. Through sustained creation, I attempt to construct my own. Making art and writing remain the most direct way I understand myself and stay present within my own life.