ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores embodiment and the subconscious, illustrating and writing through somatic awareness and intuition. I am guided by an interest in the nature of self — in origin, becoming, collapse, and rebirth. 

My illustrations consist of hand-rendered line work with black ink on paper. Select illustrations undergo scanning, compositing, and digital manipulation as subtle interventions that shift narrative and mood. They are made in similar rhythm to my poetry, emerging initially as intuitive, thick strokes framing the subject(s), then woven together through precise “needlework.” Each line, word, shape, and subject is influenced by the sound of the space I am working in, whether it’s jazz amidst an otherwise silent room, loud chatter of people in a café, or wind brushing tree leaves in a park.

“Thick strokes” that frame my work:

Lineage, childhood, relations

Suffering, trauma, violence

Liminality, vulnerability, unearthing

Rebellion, power, chaos

Divinity, femininity, play

Sensitivity, discernment, inquisition

My work is deeply personal, a continuous excavation and examination of the people, places, experiences, and movements that have made up my life. It is informed by an equally political body of knowledge, having evolved in tandem with my undergraduate studies exploring technology, capital, power, and the environment. I am interested in art-making as a research practice, specifically as a mechanism for drawing parallels between the intimacies of individual intellectual and somatic experience, and the entangled social relations that constitute communities at various scales.