Artist's Statement
In my art, I meld vibrant hues, intricate motifs, and textures to traverse the human condition. Each palette knife stroke embodies personal and societal tales, navigating joy, adversity, and the taboo with raw honesty in each layer of impasto paint. Technology intertwines traditional craft with digital innovation, infusing my work with the warmth of human touch.
I weave together narratives of my Queer identity, autism, disability and sexual assault experiences, creating art that is deeply vulnerable and connects to the shared human subconscious, making a space where viewers can feel seen or have difficult conversations. Paint creates new beauty, photography integrates the details of everyday life and ink brings depth. Fiber symbolizes resilience, fostering dialogue and catalyzing transformation.
My art transcends reflection; it’s a beacon of hope, guiding us toward understanding and unity. Join me on a journey where colors dance, patterns speak, and textures sing—a symphony of life, love, and the human spirit, inviting you to feel, to reflect, and to be moved.
Color Explosion Series
I use color and gestural movement to visually play, creating vibrant abstract impasto paintings with many rainbows to get lost in. Each painting is an experiment and collaboration between the paint and my own instincts combined with Autistic stimming, with details as beautiful as the whole. Exploring my own needs by combining color, repetition, and pattern, I tap into the communal subconscious that we all share and seek to bring it to life. As a Queer Disabled artist, I often experience a separation from others in everyday life. My paintings are a language that bridges the gap between me and others, and a way to communicate as a person who cannot always speak. When words are inaccessible, feelings and colors are still there. Each one is a space to dive into visually and explore.
We Will Not Be Silent Series
My personal narrative shapes a branch of my work which addresses my experiences with sexual assault and harassment, as well as my identity as a queer person. Using imagery I developed in my purely abstract works, I focus on creating pieces that are readable and relatively palatable, as well as deeply honest and personal. They are vulnerable to the point of being raw, both out of a need to process my experiences, and in the hopes that others will understand and feel less alone in theirs. In addition to works that share my story, I also share the stories of others who have dealt with sexual assault and harassment. I seek to remove their cost for speaking up by sharing what they have submitted online anonymously. My work functions as a means to help them feel seen and heard, to have people understand how vast the problem actually is, and to call for societal change. It grows and changes with the addition of each new panel. I use fiber in these pieces, both because of its versatility and because it has historically been seen as ‘women’s work.’ Reclaiming it to tell our stories is empowering.
