Artist Statement

My work is about perceiving what is missing, hidden, or lost, and gestures toward themes of absence, longing, and memory. I am interested in the interplay between the seen and unseen, spiritual and material, real and surreal, explicit and tacit, and how those distinctions are mutable. As a primarily visual artist, I enjoy the challenge of the difficulty of representation when the subject is immaterial and invisible, but nonetheless present.

I primarily work in collage, photography, and printmedia, along with designing and publishing artists books and zines. Each project begins with a conceptual entry point or question, and draws from aesthetics related to historic and contemporary images and material culture related to the theme.

Once during a brief but profound interaction with a person I met during an especially liminal season of my life, she remarked, “you know, you have been working with the dead a long time.” I think about this and the ghosts in my life often, particularly in the context of my work. Whether my mind is on literal specters, unseen forces, or just an ex, a preoccupation with haunting in all its forms is the entry point to understanding both my art practice and how I move through the world.