Finding expression through painting and sculpture, my practice follows an ongoing examination of the intricacies and nuance of the psyche. This exploration reflects my engagement with oftentimes contradictory modes of thought - the philosophical, psychoanalytic, psychological, and Zen Buddhist. The result is an acknowledgement and acceptance of a self that is not fully definable, singular, and fixed, but rather situated in context and relationality.
Building upon thin layers of oil paint, I look to the exteriority of epidermis as metaphor for interiority. Wax accentuates the corporeality of the forms, drawing focus toward materiality beyond the depicted image. Metalwork extends the conversation of bodies towards environments - bringing to question notions of harm and protection, tenderness and abrasion, concealment and exposure. A warm palette grounds firmly in the tenderness of the bodily and organic. Porosity and translucency play a key role, pointing to the blurring of boundaries and building visible depth.
Specificity in personal references from the home, the maternal, absence and desire is abstracted and veiled in the final form. In each quiet encounter, I am interested in gesturing to the overlooked, inviting the pause, cultivating a stillness. Intimate in scale, the work is slow to reveal itself, remaining in a hybrid state - oscillating between the corporeal and otherwise, known and unknown, infinite and infinitesimal.