Artist Statement

I am not a subtle artist as my work is a confessional as much as a catharsis. I create sculptural installations that draw on the emotion connected with personal experiences that have been disempowering to my sense of self. The material, often red and symbolic of intimate emotionality and physicality, has a malleability that reveals delicacies desecrated within process — tied to ideas of body and consciousness being used over and over.

My discernment of the social hierarchies and constructions that conceal emotional and physical harm is a central vulnerability and motivation of the work. There is reclamation, resolution, and restlessness in the identity and gestures of my art. Space becomes aligned with memory, and the delicacy and movement of my installations intentionally makes itself symbolically informed with ideas of intimacy and isolation. I am intuitive with process and emotion as I create.

I also use performance to insert my body into the work and to wire through the intimacy of that version of myself that rests within these moments. I allow myself to reassemble my feelings towards these experiences and simultaneously cite references to symbols of wine — as a subject of power and idea with the physical stain of memory — and found items that implicate specific American collegiate organizations, social decorums, and cultures of unchecked misogyny.