Artist Statement

The relationship between chaos and organization is something that my work is heavily rooted in. I think as a child growing up between two homes—my mother’s in California, and my father’s in Colorado—there was this constant tension and even confusion for me between 2 different ways of being. I believe I enjoy working with different mediums because there’s this inherent need for me to successfully merge opposing things—a need that I think came about as a result of my “broken” childhood.

It’s quite healing for me, to watch opposing things sit next to each other; be it paint and thread, painted paper that’s been cut out into shapes and put back together in a different form, or large paint brush strokes sitting next to tiny ones.

I enjoy watching the interaction between differences, each thing being perfect the way it is. One isn’t better than the other, one doesn’t try to change the other, they both just are as they are, interacting harmoniously together.

I find my subject matter is primarily inspired by my upbringing in California, my love of the ocean, and my curiosity for all the different animals we share this Earth with.