artist’s statement 

It can be challenging to engage in vulnerable conversations with others. I create works to bridge some of these intimacy gaps and explore our connectedness to memory. Refocusing our gaze on conglomerations of micro-moments otherwise missed or forgotten, recontextualized, and re-presented. New accumulations of tangible, familiar concepts evolving within a contemporary space. Paintings or soft felt sculptures ebb and flow through realistic and surrealistic scenes. Shifting and moving as the memories they represent, like sand through the fingertips, becoming a continuous and intangible enigma.

Using experiences through adversity, themes rooted in psychology, philosophy, domesticism, cross-cultural identities, and language as the basis for my practice. These topics come together to present multi-layered narratives unraveling as profoundly or simply as the viewer chooses to engage. Carefully toeing between harsh realities and soft strands of otherwise misplaced moments reborn in felt childlike scenes. Refining and simplifying provocative encounters. Leaning into subconsciously accepted storytelling visuals that are most familiar to us, at times deceiving us with their oversimplifications, looking deeper into the complex nature of the trials of reality unfolding before the viewer. My paintings are primarily composed of dark cool colors and highly contrasted scenes. I use lighting as a way to evoke feelings of loneliness, like the soft blue glow of a tv left on at night, or the fluorescent flickering of bathroom lights that eliminate features and overexpose the body, leaving only the traces of the people they were meant to capture. These depictions create a sense of alienation and rigid withholding of the subjects that they depict. Playful, paralyzing, understated, and overcomplicated. Deeply complex psychological spaces are created as visual puzzles to foster thoughtful conversation among audiences.