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 subtle interventions through scanning, compositing, and digital manipulation. 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 various stimuli in the space I am working in, be it the shape of a jazz tune, the gait of passersby, or the bulges of a nearby tree trunk.  

“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 witnessed throughout my life. Having evolved in tandem with my undergraduate studies, my work is also informed by explorations of 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 make up communities at various scales.