Throughout the entirety of my artist's practice my work has been primarily informed by the people around me and the media I am consuming, my mind functioning as a machine which seeks to take everything I care about and formulate it into labors of love. My work is split into two primary forms of practice - Mixed media sculpture and digital media.
My mixed media sculptures are surrealist depictions of human experience, often spending more time in the process of conceptualizing and planning than in the phases of making. Draftsmanship plays a massive role, with each piece going through constant changes and altered stages of development, my many sketches acting as blueprints, outlines, and reminders. Between ceramic vessel forms, cloth tapestries, and graphic illustration many of these pieces find themselves existing as direct expressions of relationships, experiences, and processes such as platonic love, the cycle of abusive relationships, and guilt. I utilize my multi-media skill set to create complex installations and interconnected pieces which generate an overarching narrative. These narratives are loosely interpretable, intentionally hiding or removing certain contexts, giving the audience the freedom to interpret the piece with or without them. It is through this practice of minute details and hidden stories that I also base my graphic design and illustration work around. This process is primarily digital yet still follows the same processes as my non-digital work. Materiality continues to be of immense importance even here as I question how what I’m making could be more than what it has to be. Through this question in particular my practice is driven to be maximalist, and in turning inward I produce my greatest work.
Process for me is not just about the creation of art, but about the processing of life and its many experiences into tender moments constructed from the many materials and skills I have learned to love. My initial years creating were spent gathering skills over conceptual ability resulting in work that has only just begun to grow away from who I was and instead grow into who I am while maintaining all the elements that both inspire and inspired me to create.