Statement:
I have always been a curious person, asking a lot of “what if” and “why” questions. This curiosity drives me to try and understand the creative experience.
My early processes originated with photography. In college, I started painting on my photographs, which ignited a journey into experimental painting, and feeling so curious about what if I did this or that?
I have found my work to be deeply personal. Themes that may come up include layering, smearing, smothering, tearing, weaving, movement, all of which relate to my inner experience of how it feels to navigate life. I question what it means to be human, feel human. I believe that when we look at art, or while we are making art, we connect to this humanness.
Amidst life’s experiences that leave mark after mark on us - grief, trauma, loss, joy, birth - what lies in the in between, or underneath?
