Artist Statement

I create life as I pass through it. Moving through each day, we leave behind moments that might have been memories. These missed memories become would-be lives; they are glorious secrets that will never exist except in thought. In the same way that each decision adds up to a life, each shape I create adds up to a whole piece. These shapes and colors breathe, stretch, grow, and eventually become lives of their own. Each piece I create is a life, but which is the best life? What if I had made one shape a different color or pattern? Would the entire piece be different? What if I had made a different choice? Would my whole life be different?

My work reflects on how questions like these can lead us into false realities, which can hold back our everyday decisions in the true reality. People grow afraid of living the wrong life, prohibiting them from making important choices, so they stumble through life with no self-trust.

I create paintings made of colorful gouache that shock my viewers and draw them in to appreciate how each individual is a composition of infinite decisions that could have turned out infinitely different but ended up in the present. I also create ceramic pieces that focus solely on shapes, mostly removing the element of color and exposing the raw shapes as they are to my audience. These shapes fit into each other; they each individually contribute to the pieces as a whole.

I hope that my work evokes feelings of gratitude through my colorful expressions of mobility and restlessness for the fate of only living one life out of the infinite possibilities that arise from each action.