Statement:

Through conjured memory, I revisit my family's history with physical and mental illness. My current work is a reflection of those memories with an emphasis on the relationship between human biology and human emotion. These reflections have caused me to become both wary of the future and empathetic of the past.

By using the figure as a metaphor for illness, I am able to convey the sentiments often correlated with disease. My surface choices are derived from scans of the human body focusing on their color and visual texture. My intent is for one to imagine the surface of the skin as a reflection of what is happening inside the body and mind.

In my studio practice, anxieties about my own physical and mental health and obsessions with mortality manifest themselves in the choice of diminutive scale, charged surfaces, and uneasy body language within the figures. These are ideas that are continuously shifting and evolving as I think about how I want these objects to be perceived.