Artist statement

"My practice is an act of introspection – one that allows me to access the depths of my inner world. I explore past traumas, where they live in my world, and what it means to live alongside them while also imagining what can exist in that same space to protect me. I aim to redefine divinity for myself, to create a secular safe place to turn to for comfort and guidance that can be found in everyday life.  I recognize divinity as an omnipresent force and search for manifestations of it - in myself, in people around me, in lotus flowers and sparkles on the water. My art is an active search for this presence. 

My work considers how we make sense of personal and generational trauma, carry it, and often neglect it as it quietly builds complex, detrimental worlds within us. It encourages others to think about ways to  protect themselves and cultivate a relationship with healing and belonging, and to give attention and care to the own struggles that live inside of them while also honoring, reclaiming, and reimagining everything that came before them. I hope to elicit curiosity in others about what they consider divine, and how they can find individualized ways to protect themselves."

I live my life in honor of my ancestors, the women who lived lives I will never know about – the women who survived the ice age, who endured colonization, who persevered enough to allow me to exist. How can I let myself live a mediocre life when all of this has happened before me? How could I possibly not take full advantage of the privileges I have as a modern woman that those before me did not? Their trauma may live on in my blood, but so does their resilience. Their energy exists in my inner world as well, guiding me in a way I could never comprehend.