Artist Statement

My work is a circular dialogue moving through value, ownership, and identity. These concepts construct our relationships and definitions of individual and collective reality. Making solidifies me in a particular time and space; like an artistic spellcasting that manifests artist and viewer through the ritual process of creating. In 2021 time still feels like it shifts and dissolves. Space folds in on itself. We redefine our structures in the midst of social trauma and find ourselves adrift in a sea of cognitive dissonance. What does it mean to be solidified through art at this moment? These works are investigations of identity within personal, social, environmental, and cultural grief. 

 The video painting ~Happy Birthday is an exploration of the mortal shadow present in every celebration in the wake of suicide, death and mental health crisis. It’s a piece within the self. It is the reflection of my own loss. Who am I when loss is omnipresent? 

Human at the Beach (Diptych) is a moment of misperception and confusion. Confronting our understanding of the world around us and our role in it. Who are we when we don’t know what is real around us and what’s really around us?  Claiming the Sky : The National anThem is a chaotic catalyst. A video-painting of anxiety, the absurdity in ownership and the terror of rampant nationalism. How can a non-binary queer fem with Colonial-American roots confront the brutal history and rising facism in the United States? Would conquering every part of this world, owning every piece, ruining this land for future generations, prove that we had value when we were here?