ARTIST STATEMENT

        The spaces we live in reveal so much about ourselves, including our mental states. Very few people want to talk about how they didn’t clean their room for a few years, or what their living spaces look like after a long depressive episode. Very few want to share images of it, let alone make art of it. I take this as a challenge, to be brutally honest with what it tangibly looks like to be mentally unwell. My work allows me to look back and re-experience my life as it was, to see what struggles I’ve had and how my world view has been altered. In this way, my work is autobiographical; it is a living document of my life and how I have overcome obstacles. In this, people who struggle the way I do feel less alone. My primary goal is for others to see a piece and have it feel like a mirror: a glimpse into their own psyche. Each piece is an invitation for you to view the world through the eyes of the struggling.

        Visual art allows me to share my ideas and experiences with the world in all the ways words fall short. I am a mixed media artist; I utilize painting, printmaking, and found objects to create my work. Discomfort is an alienating emotion we actively try to avoid; which I use as a tool to draw in my audience and illicit sensations they would otherwise shy away from.