About

I allow my art to be an outlet for personal experiences; I try to contend with not only who I am but what I have experienced as an individual. This contention plays a key part in the art I make for myself and others. I have a love of what is traditionally considered “woman’s work,” and I enjoy pushing myself to explore new art forms and combine them with those often seen as ‘craft’ rather than art. Each one can play a unique role in what message my art sends.

Much of the art I make speaks to an internal discomfort. Personal and societal discomforts regarding my identity have forced themselves on and around me. They fester and multiply to the point of outgrowing my skin, so they push their way out. They are an effort to comfort my discomforts, make them tangible for myself and others. Aspects of my identity, such as coming from a two-mother household and being a “test-tube baby,” shape my work; the unnaturalness I often feel in the world fuels my use of nature motifs in my work: I need to combine the natural and unnatural because that is how I came to be.