My work is a continuous process of digestion of my everyday experience. Ideas, environments, emotions, materials – my creative practice, much like my life, thrives on discovery. Rather than chasing a single theme or ideology, I allow my ideas to emerge through playful restriction. Whether self-imposed or shaped by circumstance, the peculiarities of materials and media lend themselves to different stories that I like to tell. Recently I have explored concepts of love, privacy and loss through performance, memory and endurance through printmaking, race and perception through sculpture, and prose and vulnerability through bookmaking. My pieces take many forms, but throughout them all I aim to create work that feels intentional, layered, and open to interpretation — objects and experiences that invite reflection, conversation, and connection. I enjoy translating abstract concepts into tangible forms and inviting others into that dialogue. Watching people engage with my work, interpret it, and find meaning in it brings me both joy and motivation. I don’t claim to fully understand where that impulse comes from or where it’s taking me, but I trust it. Through continued exploration and experience, my motivations will become clearer—not in a final, definitive way, but as part of an ongoing evolution.
Designer Statement
We are in a golden age of information and print media. I work with typography, graphic and publication design for exactly that reason. Today’s media landscape is dominated by digital design. Its flexibility and practicality has crowned the platform as the archetype for information delivery. Even so, people seek out what should be antiquated media; we buy records, we read books, we collect magazines and display them with pride. I love the physicality of print, the drama of the page turn, the smell of the ink. The codex is one of our most ancient and comfortable forms of information delivery. My work aims to engage the viewer through simple interventions in a well established format. MUCK has been the playground for many of these experiments. The magazine investigates how we consume information through text windows, translucent layered pages, non-standard book binding and experimental typography. I work closely with artists and in gallery settings because I believe that the art community is the bleeding edge of this kind of experimentation. I capture the attention and imagination of my viewers through a true synthesis of art and design.