Artist Statement

I am a visual artist having been raised in and around the Greater Los Angeles Area. As an artist, I seek to unpack and process repressed emotions, parsing through nuanced and complicated feelings about my own sexuality, identity, and sense of empathy. My practice gravitates towards warm colors and high contrast ink, watercolor, and colored pencil frequently depicting ephemeral, glowing animals or creatures.

I make animals because they don’t talk. You can impress yourself and project your emotions onto them easier than you could a figure. A figure is a human being and every depiction of a human has its own personality. I make art because I struggle to express myself and yet I desire to be known and understood. Like many artists, every one of my artworks is myself. To ignore an emotion is to be blind to it and you cannot control what you can’t see. In this way, I make art because I want to understand myself.