I am a multidisciplinary painter who moves between sculpture, textile, print, and installation based processes. I find strength in my multiplicity and breadth. My works are organic, bodily environments, and fully living scenes. I am often inspired by the landscapes I’ve lived in, and push the psychological connotations a landscape can possess to their most potent limits. I employ color vividly, creating harmonized fields which you can wander into and find yourself lost in. I find power and potency in animal kinship, as their likeness and spirit infuse each body of work with symbolism and emotional resonance. Over the last four years, these studio companions have included fish tethered in nets, murmurations of twinkling starlings, insectoid metamorphosis, the maternal doe, and the hybrid, resistant werewolf. I find a glimmering queer power in expressing these guiding entities through my intuitive and inventive painting process. I avoid ascribing specific intentions for a project in terms of material engagement or composition before beginning. Instead, those decisions are better made in collaboration with the changing surface. Given autonomy, patience, and space, the material asks for what it needs. In my studio,  drawings compose each other and material experiments invigorate in an invitational web. Therefore, each piece that becomes autonomous and leaves the nest is embedded with the history, insights, and remnants of the entire studio. Removing them from the innards of my work space resembles the precarious moment of a bird attempting flight for the first time. Fluttering ferociously, and with bravery, it takes on a life of its own.