about

My recent work explores the layered nature of humanity, marrying familiar with whimsy. Populated by wonky forms, my compositions are full of nonsense. Fascination with emotion, noise, and distortion stems from my effort to navigate the feeling of liminality and how it exists both in the junctures of life and physical spaces. Liminality is, “the uncertain transition between where you've been and where you're going physically, emotionally, or metaphorically. To be in a liminal space means to be on the precipice of something new but not quite there yet.” How can the impermanence of liminal spaces be freeing? I portray the liminal through odd colors, distorted forms, and playfulness. I hope to acknowledge how liminal space awakens mixed emotions; such as comfort, uncertainty, freedom, growth, confusion, or apathy. Inspired by the Funk artists of the 1960s, I harness funniness to create a window into the intimacy of deeper reflection. This playfulness is meant to enliven the work and invite the viewer in. I want people to make free associations with the imagery in my work, reflecting on the complexity of their own experience in liminal spaces.

Drawing is at the epicenter of my process, imparting a sense of freedom that I hope invigorates the friskiness in my imagery. Working in the expanded field of printmaking, I play with the limitations of drawing and achieve types of mark exclusive to mediums like lithography and monotype. Layering different matrices together creates an extensive rolodex of marks that are surprising and generative. I aim to capture the emotive capacity of line and its ability to express tone and feeling, and I want to use this aspect of drawing to cultivate depth in my fanciful composition moving forward.