Carter has always had the habit of looking around as if everything could become material for creation. From an early age, she developed the reflex of drawing what she sees (note-taking device, small notebook with a broken spine), writing down ideas, and collecting works from other artists, inspiring objects, and meaningful items. Over time, this reflex became a method: she almost always keeps a small notebook in her pocket wherever she goes. She fills one, then two, then ten. Today, she owns dozens of them, filled with sketches, notes, projects, and reflections. These notebooks have become the first step of all her works.

Trained in visual arts, Carter mainly works with acrylic paint, but the canvas is not a limitation for her. She is interested in objects, volumes, and the way a work can exist in space. For her, an idea does not always need to remain on a flat surface; it can become an object, a form, a material presence.

Her work almost always begins with observation. She observes people, objects, buildings, clothing, movements, colors in the city, contrasts in landscapes, textures on walls. She is not necessarily looking for subjects, but rather elements: a color, a shape, a composition, a relationship between two things. She then shifts these elements, transforms them, and combines them with other influences.

She is particularly interested in encounters between different worlds, such as sports, fashion, history, or the urban environment. These worlds become for her banks of inspiration, motivation, forms, colors, and ideas that he can draw from to build her work. What interests her is not representing these worlds as they are, but seeing what happens when they are taken out of context and placed elsewhere.

Her practice is largely based on trial, testing, and error. She does not always seek to control the final result. Instead, she seeks to create, experiment, and understand what works and what does not before moving into action. Stepping outside her comfort zone is part of her process, because it is often in the unknown that the most interesting ideas appear.

For Carter, art is not only an image or an object. It is a way of communicating—since she does not communicate through words but through images—and a way of seeing, collecting, testing, and transforming. Her works are often the result of all these accumulated observations, reworked and reorganized to offer a new way of seeing things we thought we already understood.