Artist Statement

My work explores questions I cannot answer, and perhaps never will. I’m interested in how lived experience and trauma shape perception, and how this influences the time we are given. How trauma shifts one’s relationship to time, and how we continue to build a life knowing it will eventually end. These tensions show up in the quietest parts of life where I find myself looking the most. How do we navigate existence, let alone find happiness, in the face of our inevitable mortality? I explore the ways fragility and resilience coexist, much like happiness and loss, grief and joy, and how each moment walks a delicate line between life and death. My hope is to convey these dualities in a way that feels personal and vulnerable, allowing space for connection through shared experiences and emotions. I am drawn to ephemerality and nuanced moments in time, like the long shadows in the afternoon, or the way light from the world dances in the reflection of a window. These moments feel so deeply tied to all the complexities that make us human. To be human is to be nuanced and ephemeral, is it not? In these quiet, fleeting moments, I find solace, joy, a sense of reverie, and a little bit of sorrow. I create cyanotypes because the color blue evokes the vastness of our emotional landscapes, and the spaces that lie beyond what we can physically see or touch. The cyanotype process allows me to slow down, and create a deeper sense of intimacy and vulnerability within my work.