Artist Statement

I illustrate local forest wildlife and fragments of personal possessions in order to reimagine and deconstruct religious iconography. These dismembered forms are laboriously detailed, sometimes ghostly, sometimes rich in sensual color. I am interested in exploring the relationship between the frailties of the tangible body and the resilience of the spirit, in how the body holds the potential for the holy as well as the profane. My work examines the intricacies of religious phenomenon and ritual in relation to the natural world. 

Through careful rendering and arrangement, bodies become vulnerable altars, assigned meaning. These tableaus depict delicate and affectionate interactions with violent or unnerving undertones. They speak to sensations of intimacy, anxiety, and grief without context. My work is informed by magical, alchemical, and religious practices, as well as macabre historical events, and a lifelong interest in medical anomalies and folk horror. Visuals are often dictated by my personal, formative memories, Northeastern Americana, and rural decay.

Recent works explore the sensation of helplessness and articulate a graceful struggle between the sensations of control and surrender. I explore how the construction of images serves as an invocation and generates meaningful connections. ​These drawings chronicle an awareness that is both haunting and elegant, a space where bodies become unsettling objects, in service of something greater. They justify actions of strength and tenderness despite necessity and apathy.