My work is a confessional as much as a catharsis. I create abstract sculptural installations that draw on the emotion connected with personal experiences that have been disempowering to my sense of self and womanhood. I use material whose malleability reveals delicacies that are desecrated the further I work with it — akin to ideas of body and consciousness being used over and over.

Red acts the central essence and tie in all these pieces, emulating intimate emotionality and physicality. The language of the material incentivizes me as I push and pull, whether with heat or my hands to shred and mutilate into evocative, ephemeral gestures.

I 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 and societal mentalities.