My work is driven by personal experiences and their connections to contemporary and historical issues. The complexities and intricacies of labor, care, and identity in our current and past culture are consistent undercurrents in all aspects of the work which include layered, labor-intensive drawings, collage, sculpture, performance, et al, and often transform into fully realized mixed media works and immersive installations. I seek to make challenging experiences accessible to those without the same somatic knowledge while still engaging in conversation and confrontation. The viewer is met with bodily experiences that mirror the complexities of the stories I share, with a focus on shared knowledge, awareness, empathy, and change.
My recent work is mostly divided in two ways:
1. Focus on the daily lived experiences of women; their triumphs, their struggles, and everything in between in several bodies of work which reflects on the complicated spaces, both personal and public, that women inhabit and move through.
2. Exploration of the complexities of identity where family history, cultural and social influence, politicization, and personal desire are both at odds and overlapping. In this exploration identity becomes a fact-based excavation of personal history alongside a kind of fictional mythological world building.