I’m driven by a fascination with the layers and complexities of a lived life and the way those can be expressed through different mediums and visual systems. My work acknowledges the varying perceptions that emerge from viewing an image depending upon how the pieces are put together.
Bringing together painting and photography digitally, I create collages—combines—that blur the real and the imagined. My personal visual system includes layering abstract paintings I make, combined with photos I take on walks around my neighborhood, photos of flowers I grow in my garden, pages of my daily writing, and screenshots of on-line content I consume. I am also inspired by the landscape around me in my neighborhood, Long Island City in Queens NY. Recently, I have also been confronting my personal family history and inheritance of an art and craft practice passed down through generations of women. The results are images that seem dreamlike but also function as a concrete visual diary.