artist statement (March 2023)
It starts as a daydream. A place I would rather be.
My work is rooted in my fascination with the phenomenological.
My practice is expanding beyond just painting on canvas, where now, exploration in sculpture and technology is facilitating this space-rock, psychedelic pop, magic carpet ride.
I am inspired by the ephemeral and visionary space we visit in our heads when we hear our favorite music or flashback to a sweet memory. Essentially, the moments on Earth that successfully subvert the melancholy and take you on a fantastic voyage.
My existence is heavily influenced by fantasy-world-building internet societies like Webkinz World and Club Penguin. Ever since I was able to hold a crayon, I have been escaping for hours at time to construct my own psychedelic reality.
With an innate fluorescent color palette and attraction to the artificial, craft materials like glitter glue, acrylic paint, and papier Mache effectively allow me to explore scale and material intuitively.
My hope is to can create an accessible space that invites viewers to escape reality and envision a future that is as radical and abundant as the work itself. I want to turn the white/cube gallery into a sort of amusement park. To create experiences and push the absurd.
We are all made of stardust.
Minute specks of glittering dust that hold together to create this infinite crystal universe of wonder, delight, pain, humor, and exploration.Join me in filling the void with glitter. Let us spray paint its insides neon pink, coat it in resin, and negate the space between the wonderful and the repulsive.
