ARTIST STATEMENT

 

 My work involves references to imagery and objects informed by familial memories and archives. Looking at the idea of the presence of the past, how our bodies/mind tries to make sense of time, and looking at the process of "internal rhythm" through the practice of drawing. 

A constant dialogue between origins and destinations is at the essence of my work; I believe a continual 'push and pull' approach leaves room for fluidity and open-ended narratives without trying to pinpoint, but rather to leave intuitive traces for working with perceptions of memory. 

Working with the evocations of photographs and recollected observations through layers and fragmentation, I seek ways to realize the phenomenon of "otherness" within identity. Pieced together from moments, scraps, and partial visions, drawing acts as an investigation; and the intimate, slow process of rendering graphite onto the surface sometimes embodies a psychological approach, exploring the relationship between the directive language of the drawing's motion and the threshold of the complex nature held within the drawn image.

Gravitating towards working with archived, used, or found crumpled and/or folded paper, I am interested in testing various iterations of how the materiality of a surface could be shown as its own unique entity or body.

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