Artist Statement

Updated: June 2025

My practice is an exploration of the tension between structure and the fluid rhythms of everyday life. I’m drawn to quiet, repetitive gestures, bodily routines that often carry an unspoken desire for control. These patterns, shaped by the push and pull of comfort and disruption, become a language through which I examine the complex relationship between the body, time, and memory.

Working fluidly across disciplines, I explore how materials can serve as extensions of the body, holding touch, memory, and experience. I’m interested in how surfaces absorb and respond, not as static forms but as evolving sites of transformation. Through intuitive processes shaped by routine and duration, my work becomes a reflection of how presence and absence, connection and distance, continually intersect.

Whether through mark-making, layering, staining, or performance, my process invites impermanence. I seek out porous forms, those that allow light, time, and meaning to pass through, emphasizing permeability over permanence. Materials in my practice are not just objects, but active participants in a negotiation between control and surrender, intimacy and erasure.

Ultimately, I create within a space of in-betweenness, where boundaries blur and opposites coexist. My work doesn’t aim to resolve this tension, but to inhabit it: to hold space for the body’s quiet urgencies, for the gestures that remain unfinished, and for the continual transformation of meaning over time.

Mud Marks: Hands and Arm

2024, mud on paper, 18" x 24"