ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My art usually starts from a “I wonder what would happen if” frame of mind. Sometimes the work is spontaneous, whimsical, impulsive, intuitive, and comes from a place of feeling rather than thinking. Other times, my process is more methodical; an idea may come forward, usually tied to an emotion — fear, love, joy, grief, or the desire to transcend — and I purposefully set out to explore it.

For me, there is magic in manifesting ideas.

I like to work across various media and I’ve never met a raw material I would turn away. I particularly like upcycling objects others might discard.

During the pandemic when art stores were closed, I began tearing up old canvases, painting over them with black gesso, sewing them together vertically, and melting old beeswax candles from my living room on my kitchen stove to paint with it. I incorporated pieces of old metal screen and cardboard into some of the pieces. I started working in a way I haven’t really turned back from. Raw materials, raw art.

More recently, I have been working across media. If I land on an idea I believe is worth pursuing, I try to manifest it two dimensionally and three dimensionally, and sometimes incorporate poetry. Printmaking forms an integral part of my two dimensional work.

Ultimately, I am fascinated by the inexplicable nature of the process of creating and responding to art.