Artist Statement
My work explores how meaning resists containment—how perception, memory, and identity are layered, fragmented, and continually remade. Images can reflect things we can't fully see or explain.
I use symbolic still life and emphasis on the evocative potency of form to suggest the complexity of stories and relationships that aren't easily shown in a single frame. The works are symbolic and narrative in a way that is abstract and conceptual. They don't tell a story that is easily deciphered; they stage encounters rather than conclusions. Through arrangements of natural and constructed materials—flowers, mirrors, string, bone, pigment—I consider how stories unravel and reform across bodies, materials, and time. Like elements with multiple valences, objects and symbols combine differently with each viewer's experience, creating meaning that is contingent—shaped by context, memory, and proximity.
This work is a visual poem revolving around my thoughts about nuance, dualities, and how we influence and transform each other. The sequence of images—like a sequence of events—suggests how stories bind, unravel, and reform across time and experience, revealing meaning-making as a continuous process. In a polarized world so often dominated by binaries and ambivalence, I'm interested in how we place and see ourselves, and each other, in imagery that allows for lingering in complexity.
