Artist Statement
My work is rooted in a reductive abstract language developed through lived experience within both natural and constructed environments. Living and working in Kings County, New York, I was immersed in a dense intersection of architecture, infrastructure, and organic life. Brick, glass, steel, concrete, plants, and people existed in constant proximity. That environment shaped how I understand form, material, and space, and it continues to inform my practice today.
I work primarily with two forms: the circle and the square. These are not open-ended symbols within my practice. The circle represents life as an ongoing, cyclical force that is embodied, continuous, and adaptive. The square represents structure, the systems that contain, frame, and define life, both biologically and man-made. Life exists within structure, but it is not the structure itself. This distinction is foundational to all of my work, regardless of medium.
My understanding of these forms developed alongside my experience of space as something both transitory and rigid, shaped by architecture, memory, and movement through different environments, including New York City, North Carolina, and the Pacific Northwest. Each place carries its own material language, palette, and spatial rhythm. Those differences directly influence the color systems, density, and surface qualities within my work.
Material choice is central to how these ideas are realized. I work with bio-resins, layered inks, recycled polyester, and cast polymers. These materials exist between states of liquid and solid, transparency and opacity, organic and manufactured. They allow me to construct forms that hold tension between control and emergence, stability and change.
My process is slow, layered, and iterative. I work with repetition and restraint, allowing forms to accumulate and interact within defined boundaries. Through this process, fragments of perception, memory, and spatial experience are translated into physical form. The completed work holds these elements together in a single moment. Life and structure, interior and exterior, seen and unseen exist as a quiet but deliberate presence within a space.