STATEMENT

As a visual artist with A.D.D., I’m drawn to moments when the world around me demands attention. My work explores fragments of the built and natural environment, such as signage, decorative façades, and native flora, that reflect regional identities and ecological specificity. I am interested in the visual footprint of a place: the colors, materials, and motifs that define a place. I focus on these details, abstracting them through saturated color, exaggerated scale, and unexpected materials to give them the attention I believe they deserve.

My research-based practice examines the erasure of regional and ecological specificity and its impact on community and human connection. I explore how expressive design and character-rich spaces restore that sense of connection. The work is also a way for me to process my own emotional relationship to certain places, and to come to terms with feelings of attachment, loss, nostalgia, and affection tied to them.

In the psychogeographic component to my practice, I walk through cities and natural spaces seeking out moments when eccentric, overlooked, or nearly obsolete details resist homogenization. These discoveries become the foundation for immersive installations, where architectural and botanical forms reappear as abstracted, whimsical shapes. Using materials such as wood, ceramic, and sometimes everyday construction supplies like rebar and plaster, my work surrounds the viewer, utilizing light and sound to create whole environments that mirror the sense of fantasy and delight I feel when connecting to the textures and peculiarities of a place.