Artist Statement

I don’t believe in object permanence. I believe objects become in the mind and body of the spectator, through the act of being experienced. Looking is a sacred and transformative act. 

My work is born out of the explosive enthusiasm I feel when making sense of a new way to explain the experience of being alive in a self-conscious body. My most recent work is made up of quiet spectacles, with subtle shifts in color, tone, shadow, and texture. Concept is always first for me, and materials are stilts strapped on after– often a point of experimentation, not grounding. I often derive concepts from plucking through/grasping at text and video on phenomenological and feminist philosophy and critical media studies. Direct demonstration of Object and Subject has often been a generative point for me. I have previously oscillated between quiet pieces and more garish, visceral works, hoping to elicit a physical response from the viewer. Now, as I investigate ideas of perceptibility itself, I want my work to be less readily digested.

I want to make the viewer conscious of their role in looking at artwork, and how perception and being perceived change and take action in the world. The world is, of course, centered around you or me or whomever is reading this now.

Here I am

Human Statement

I am a walking homunculus diagram, or the princess that slept on thirty stacked mattresses because she could feel a pea. My cat is named Spoon.

I graduated from the Tyler School of Art in 2020 with a degree in Visual Studies and a minor in Visual Anthropology. I have aphantasia, which means I cannot “see” things in my mind’s eye, but I somehow have vivid dreams every night.

One of the most important moments of my life occurred at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999. I could smell The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living from the next gallery over. When I turned the corner, and came face to face with the shark, my five-year-old mind and body imprinted with the booming thought: “art can be anything”.