Growing up a broken child has slowly turned me into a broken adult, but I’m confident that this fuels my creative world. My work typically balances on a thinly braided tightrope of anger, insecurity, and trauma. However, more recently I’ve been able to get my brain to fire differently when I recall a fellow student saying, “art doesn’t always have to be sad.” That statement has had a huge impact on my recent work because, deep down, I know that student was absolutely right.
 

A large portion of my work is personal and it attempts to deal with repressed childhood memories. I believe my psyche is still trying to process the old while simultaneously struggling to process the new traumas I have experienced as an adult. Leaning back on my young but very wise classmates' statement, I am no longer solely focused on crafting “sad” art. My animation work spawns from dark corners but I like to think it’s fairly lighthearted. My drawings are still borderline obsessive in detail but I’ve started experimenting with vibrant color. Printmaking is inherently in my blood due to my printing background, yet I have learned to use different paper finishes and textures conceptually. In that same vein, paper sculpture has taught me how to suspend my deep seeded fear of judgment and enjoy the process. And then there’s photography: my touchstone, my first love, my mother, my father, my best friend – the one I run to when I’m having a hard time making sense of things. I’m currently exploring new ways of utilizing photography with my senior thesis project. Which brings me to why intermedia suits my needs. Mixing different media is like getting lost in a new city: you don’t truly know the purpose of each road until you’ve traveled it, and I prefer to possess an array of hands-on experience before committing to any destination. 
 

My current work aims to shed light on darker themes: subjects such as ageism, disassociation, family dysfunction, gender dysphoria, and women’s rights. I may be broken, and my brokenness has always driven me to craft things, but my new charge is to create art that is more about the journey of becoming whole.