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ARTIST STATEMENT

Through drawing and painting, I am interested in finding visual synchronicity between personal photographs as way of investigating memory and meaning-making. This process feels like doing a puzzle or exploring something visually unknown, and I’m never quite sure how the collision will work. This sense of discovery is as integral to my creative motivation as any final outcome. Sometimes a piece is inspired by juxtapositions of visual forms like the texture of a cactus skeleton likened to a piece of sea kelp; the colors and shapes mingle in a visually balanced way. In other cases, I’m exploring conceptual or emotional connections, like the way I attach people to certain plants or props in my mind, which is a mental habit that no one else can literally see objectively—not even me. All of my work follows a journalistic, autobiographical trajectory. It has evolved from depictions of imaginative landscapes derived from my intense adventuring days to more current images of life slowed down by an accident, covid, and pregnancy.