Artist Statement

My work evolves from the obsessive need to catalog every memory and piece of my identity in the face of forgetting. Dealing with memory loss myself, it was an unavoidable impulse. Creating an inner world in which the physical and emotional body become separated. A complex tactile space of escapism and remembrance. 

While I use a variety of materials, often combining them into visually tactile experiences, the forms remain the same. The body, the portrait, the organs, and even the nerves, as it merges into the landscape of the inner world. An environment directly inspired by growing up in the Midwest. It’s grasses and undergrowth, not only representing the slow creep of forgetting, but the inevitable return to Earth’s embrace. 

Guided by play and repetition, I aim to understand a life backwards as it rapidly moves forward. With every stroke and stitch, my whole self is ingrained into the fabric of the work.