about 

Figures are at the center of my exploration. I return to the human form because the body has always been a subject I cannot distance myself from. I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and endometriosis (amongst a slew of other comorbidities associated with connective tissue disorders), and living with chronic pain and unpredictable mobility has profoundly shaped my relationship to figuration. The body is not a neutral vessel in my work. It is the whole subject, influenced by the surroundings of care, the desire to survive and to create.

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The physicality of creating larger works, and my recent exploration into murals and sculpture, reinforces my tangible and subconscious connection with the medium creating through physical obstacles.

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I build my paintings in layers with charcoal, acrylic, sand, oil stick, and oil paint, letting surfaces accumulate weight, divots, textures, and peaks the way memory does. My newer, larger works move toward more abstracted emotional landscapes, where fragmented symbols and surreal imagery drift through the background like half-remembered dreams. Grief and questions run through these pieces in handwritten notes-to-self or like journal entries, imitating my childhood practice of writing illustrated diary entries.

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I am also an emergency room nurse, and I have come to understand that both parts of my life are asking the same question: how do we hold what people carry in their bodies? How do we carry ourselves while carrying others? I have never experienced them as separate practices; each practice informs the other through these sensibilities.