I am a believer in all art should question current life; including our larger political and social issues. I question our relationships at the mundane and political level because each instance of communication is a moment of visual language that is intuitively dissected by another. An interpretation of body language can unlock a memory, an instance of forgetting, it can expose a part of you to another person in observation. I analyze body language and the multitudes of interpretations that exist in a fleeting second of movement. Is a red hand murder or is it a sunburn? At a more intricate level I consider the types of relationships we build in our lifetimes, i.e., long-term romantic, friends you will never see again, parasitic customer/server relations, and our relationship with our own bodies. I take these relationships and I build upon them moments of body language for viewer dissection in our political and social climate.

My work is queer and exposed. It forces tension both technically and linguistically, with the edge and with the space. I work within several dichotomies to understand misinterpretation and political and social cause and effect. I make to understand the conversational difference between the pressure of society versus the pressure from a singular person. The effect of society present in our psyches and our quiet digestion of external information. Our hold on reality as experienced in our bodies and their visual manifestations. My work is not loud and will never be but I do think it is quite uncomfortable in its exposition. How we view each other and how we view ourselves in intimate spaces, physical and mental.

At a visual level, my work is intimate and aids in the question of nude versus naked. This grand visual dichotomy serves as the base of thought in my conceptual exploration. Walking the line of how the public has come to accept certain types of exposure and where. My soft and hazy material approach lends itself well to the line of thought of both inviting intimacy and questioning nakedness.

Using several layers of acrylic paint, watercolor, and colored pencil, I create quiet depth through color and texture. I approach my work with prism-like sensibilities and understanding. The process is a consistent reminder that the figure is a landscape. Small ecosystems with shadows, mountains, scars, evidence of existence. The structure of the body is a cohabitant to an isolated experience. A conversational difference in building a mountain versus building a sentiment. The ethereal nature of a person is transcribed by the ethereal nature of material. Synthesized, concept and medium, they form the visual exposition of human nature.