My artistic practice serves as a way for me to process my emotions and lived experience. As I do this, I also create new possibilities and solve problems regarding the creation process and my personal life. Through processes of abstraction and figuration within abstraction I relinquish control in order to uncover and convey what I cannot find the words for. I often find that what I create straddles the line between being completely selfish or providing some sort of service or revelation for others. In order to succeed in this dual purpose, I use symbolism and a personal code; this anonymizes and hides my true experience from being so evident to outside viewers. I use recognizable symbols; within those symbols I hide extra information that is meaningful and specific to me. For example, in a work about the manifestation of my superstitious compulsions in my OCD, I used general symbols for luck and superstition such as four leaf clovers, rabbits, or poker chips. Within these larger symbols I hid details that are very personal, such as specific numbers that manifest in my compulsions.

My work has a preoccupation with the human figure that I augment via texture, color, layering, and patterning. In truth, however, the work is not about the human figure itself, but about depicting human experience. The human form serves as a narrative conduit to explore past events in my life, current emotions, and the world surrounding me. I use bright colors and personally satisfying lines and textures in order to enhance beauty in a way I find interesting. This simultaneously conveys my inner world and creates a small reality that is more beautiful and “perfect” than the one I exist in. I also use intense detail as a way of finding control in a spiraling, chaotic world. Overall, I create an art form that is paradoxical; it is at the same time controlled and chaotic, relatable and entirely indecipherable.