Artist Statement

I am primarily a painter, with performance, puppetry, drawing, sculpture, cartooning, and sometimes video, taking supportive roles in my practice. I am still figuring out what my work is about. Something to do with love and tenderness and when things change beyond your control. I ask myself questions like, Can Societies Consent? And, How Can Everyone Have a Happy Ending? With these ideas in mind, I paint, draw, act out, and build social situations where something is not quite right. Everyone is happy, everything is colorful, it is all very loud, yet something is a bit uncomfortable, and everyone is in a deep state of longing. One aspect that is consistent in terms of content and materiality, is how the familiar is always nestled next to the unknown, leaving myself and the audience unsure of a squishy object’s purpose or why nearly irrelevant celebrities are hanging out with my mutual friends and acquaintances wearing sparkly shirts in rooms that are physically illogical.