Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

I collapse memory and space to envision delicate new realms of existence. Through collage, painting, photography, physical assemblage, and video I consider the statement ‘use what you have to make what you need.’ This consideration began at a young age watching my mother and paternal grandparents enact care acts through various labor practices to sustain the growth and stability of my family in Baltimore, Maryland.

My works prioritize displays of personal innocence and acts of kindness within surreal landscapes. The work is made during a process of merging drawings, writings, and traditional art mediums with found objects in an arrangement akin to harmonizing sounds to make songs.

This process results in images that reflect my engagement with changing environments where space, kinship, social interrogation and found architectures and objects are explored and reflected.