My work acts as a lyrical ritual navigating dynamics within intimate experiences regarding friendship, familial, and societal roles. Throughout my work I utilize the animal kingdom paired with spunky, detailed doodles. Many of my pieces include a figurative element, but an animal holds a hidden language and sense of untouchability. This separation communicates my own yearning for escapism and contextualizes humans as witnesses. Through a thick accumulation of labor intensive mixed-media approaches I investigate themes of loss and discovery. Collage, thread, beads, and paint lay down a path to a catastrophic atmosphere, with colorful pattern work that leaves the viewer relating to the heavy dialogue, but leaving with a new sense of strength.

The importance of time persists throughout my work. I frame moments where I feel mentally drained into a picture of resilience-building. My piece, “Lemme chomp dat ass!” exemplifies my use of animals. Primordial animals such as alligators, sharks, and fish are the closest creatures to prehistoric times, implying stagnation, but paired with the overstimulating layers of quirky patterns I communicate a sense of hope and happiness. While the alligator symbolizes that time has run its course, my materials and colors sing an anthem of optimism, where we still have time: to heal, to belong, to love. Although my work has a sense of dark disharmony, the viewers find a community in shared perseverance, where tactile processes and ambiguity invite the viewer to ponder and deconstruct.