Through my drawing and painting practice, I explore the duality of movement and stillness in relationship to self-discovery. My work incorporates meditation, intuitive decision-making, and other embodied practices that facilitate an ongoing dialogue between body, mind, and process.
The balance between stillness and movement in daily life is reflected in my work through fluid mark-making, visual meandering, snake-like lines, fields of color and implied texture. Leaning on and responding to the formal components of image building, I attempt to find harmony amidst the chaos and unite seemingly disparate forms. Created with minimal expectation and attachment to a final form, my work is ultimately a reminder to be present and playful in the process of making, as well as in the day-to-day.
I focus on imagery that references found textures and patterns from life, phosphenes (closed-eye visual renderings), and trail-like marks and lines. Using adventure as a metaphor for my ever-changing inner-weather, my practice is a way of navigating the terrain that is being a person in modern times. I invite uncertainty and surprise by experimenting with materials like ink, salt, sand, dirt, and found-collage shards, layered and combined in a way that captures intersections of fluctuation and stillness.