Artist Statement
My artistic process revolves around vulnerability and memory, striving to communicate feelings of sentimentality through visual aesthetics and mixed media materials that are rich with texture. An imaginary world is created from these materials, constructed from deceptively mundane environments that invite the viewer to traverse their internal world.
Working with printmaking, textiles, and ceramics is inherently intimate because they entail long technical processes and require physical touch. This is important to me both in sustaining a meditative practice and in my conceptual focus on sensitivity. I combine line drawing, screen printing, monotypes, hand built ceramics, and sewn recycled fabric to create sculptural collages. In order to unite the various materials, I use soothing colors that are analogous or monochromatic earth tones.
My main sources of inspiration are my childhood, vivid dreams, and connection to nature. I enjoy looking through family memoribilia, dissecting my dreams (which usually involve wandering around mazes inside unfamiliar homes), and silently observing the natural world to capture and preserve an ephemeral experience. My artwork is a jumbled mess of things that are trapped in my mind, an abstracted and abnormal reality that desires to convey a physical and emotional feeling.