My work focuses on shapes, forms, words, and characters that make me laugh, furrow my brows, and/or go silent. I always come back to this feeling of bewilderment about what I encounter in my day-to-day life - it is dealt with by means of humor, remembering, and the act of drawing.

The actual manifestations of this bewilderment and drawing practice consist of awkward soft sculptures, “soft paintings”, arrangements, and quickly generated small scale paintings. haphazardly yet meticulously constructed, slathered or soaked in paint, and propped.

I am working from a goal to communicate a sort of effervescence about what growing up felt like in a girl’s body - and the dissonance experienced through it. I refer to moments as far back as past relationships and connections with humans and childhood pets - and also to fleeting immediate moments, exchanges, and scenarios I find myself witnessing on random days.

What comes up through this goal is often gritty textures from wall paint, bulbous forms from a quilt-like process, awkward but honest drawings, and a whole lot of found objects that I feel fond towards - a box of goose down feathers, poly-fil from my old comforter, and found photos of uncomfortable strangers.