My work explores how different versions of the self can coexist across time, informing and supporting one another. Moving between abstraction and representation, I begin with drawing—using nibbed pen and India ink, and more recently water-soluble crayon and pencil. As the image emerges, I build layers of watercolor and gouache, alternating between line and color. Paper as a surface provides a softness and fragility, and in varying degrees, captures early marks, lines and discarded fragments of figures. In this way, the completed piece documents the act of discovery and becoming. Working across scales, my larger pieces present nearly life-size figures that invite direct engagement and contemplation.
Unbound by realistic description, my figures and narratives remain open-ended and universal. My experience with printmaking inspires me to explore techniques that invite unpredictability into my process. Other influences include Andy Warhol’s drawings of the 1950s and Paul Klee’s ink-transfer technique. I am enchanted by Early Christian art and more recently ancient Egyptian carvings. Their poses, abstractions, flat perspective, and stillness together create a profound magnitude of expression.
Ultimately, I am interested in the dualities that shape everyday experience: sorrow and joy, magic and the mundane, solitude and connection, permanence and transience. Recent work explores the sacred within ordinary life—the natural world, animals, and daily rituals—sometimes drawing on animal archetypes and ancient prayer poses. Through this openness, I hope to create space for viewers to arrive at their own interpretations and meanings.