Artist Statement

Art is how I understand the world and myself.

I rarely begin with certainty. Most works grow from ideas, images, or feelings that stay with me for years before finding the right form. I am interested in looking at familiar things differently, and I collect fragments of memories, films, books, music, and the people I love. Making art is my way of bringing those fragments together.

I work across painting and sculpture, allowing each piece to find its own material language. Some works begin with an idea, while others begin with the material itself. I am drawn to materials that change over time or preserve traces of what they once were. Dried flowers, wax, resin, clay, and silicone suggest that transformation is never complete. As in life, things disappear and remain in another form.

Much of my work exists in the middle: between childhood and adulthood, beauty and decay, comfort and unease. I am interested in where opposites meet because each side gives meaning to the other. Together, they feel closer to the complexity of being human.

Although my work begins with my own experience, it is never entirely about me. I make art because I need to, and it helps me make sense of the world around me.

I can only hope that each work creates enough space for other people to feel something and recognize a part of themselves in it. If my work offers anything, I hope it is the feeling that our inner lives, however private they seem, are never ours alone.