My work is about the messiness of the human experience and the struggle of existence pushing forward, both physically and metaphorically, in its grit, pain, loss, pleasure, elation. I am interested in ceremony and sanctification, construct and innate impulse. Each piece revolves around abstracted narrative; impregnating form with metaphor, and using objects as hieroglyphics- magnifying the meaning in the mundane and turning trifles into talismans.

Raised by a family of storytellers who continually demonstrated the importance of collecting experience and bearing witness, I learned to revolt against impermanence and to through storytelling to bridge the gap between beings, albeit momentarily. As such, I use abstracted narrative through my work in an attempt to bridge that same gap.

Currently I am embarking on a new series of sculptures (Unnamed Rituals), that explore and dissect ideas surrounding ritualistic adornment, the tradition of exotic portraiture, cultural construction and the perpetuating of fetishized Otherness. In this series I create objects inspired by adornment ranging from Benin voodoo dancers to Masai bridal wear while not referencing any culture specifically but rather an abstracted and vague Western idea of tribal adornment. Each piece is created with materials distinctively Western in their everyday availability (purchased at Walmart, Staples, etc) and associations with the Caucasian human form as the underlying structure.