I’m a multidisciplinary artist. I create drawings, poetry, and sculpture that center around resilience, decay, and liminality. Nature’s cycles imbue endings with meaning and beauty- a lesson that redefined my experiences with PTSD. This lead to organic matter becoming one of the primary materials in my work. It rots. Creating pieces that mold, grow beyond the recognizable form, or come undone draws attention to the temporary nature of all things. It feels poetic to represent a living thing/ experience through pieces that are also bound by time. Reutilization is also important in my work. Giving purpose to discarded items is a deliberate act of gentleness towards endings but it also reinforces that what is present is enough rather than habitually discarding for the new. Another key aspect is pushing a medium past the conventional limit. As an artist, I do this when it serves the piece. As a viewer, enduring the discomfort of the in-between opens us to new ideas, experiences, and questions.

Recent work includes:

Diminutive sculptures from tea bags- tenderly shaped into ritualized expressions of stress and balance. This has evolved into combining ritual and art: making candles out of egg shells, repurposing the candle wax/ herbs afterward into it’s own piece, etc.

I’ve been drawing with thread- stacking wax paper and paint palettes and using a sewing machine to create linear patterns. The line quality and application are more similar to drawing than sewing. Each piece is double sided.

I recently finished a book! It’s a poetic memoir full of drawings written over ten years of turbulence and renewal. I’m currently pursuing publication for that project.

I’m actively applying for instillation and public art opportunities for a large scale piece made of woven Spanish moss on frame structures made of glue. Each panel is about 4’x6’. They come together into a human size path similar to a wasp nest.

Whatever medium, my goal is to create doors, through which we can meet ourselves and each other with compassion.