I am fascinated by the ways in which our physical bodies and environments grow, adapt to, resist, or incorporate change. Through painting, drawing, and sculpture, I examine these notions through the tension between harmony, fragility, and disruption within life forms. I am interested in how small-scale biological processes, particularly cellular growth or invasion of foreign cells, can spread and destabilize entire systems. These interests are informed by personal family experiences with illness and my own relationship to my body.
Materiality is central to how I communicate my ideas. I gravitate towards materials that convey depth, texture and shift with light, creating shadows and dimensionality, suggesting ideas of expansion, ephemerality, and immersion. A defining element of my practice is the use of raised dots, which have evolved into a personal visual motif. While a single dot feels complete, collectively, they function like cells or atoms, forming complex systems. Transformation is a key component in my practice, and process is as important as the outcome. Through layering, building, and pattern-making, my abstracted works resemble cellular, organic, or otherworldly systems that feel simultaneously designed and naturally occurring.
Visual perception is also a recurring focus. Influenced by my own visual impairment, I explore obscurity as a means of disrupting clarity and aim to create art that can be experienced through touch and sight. By painting textured bumps over atmospheric backgrounds, I create surfaces that invite close-looking while producing moments of visual ambiguity. My work functions as a means of processing lived experience and encourages viewers to reflect on their own relationships to their bodies, senses, and biological systems.