My current studio practice focuses mainly on imagery of the body and distortions of the body to portray varying themes of personal truths, memories, and identity. I’m focused on wearable sculptures that hold the wearer in specific positions to create and understanding between the wearer and my personal life. Best shown is my experience with chronic pain, seen in my largest collection of work All This Broken Body. In other works that are not wearable, I take human forms and twist and exclude features to create distorted figures that speak to some viewers and disturb others. Up and coming into my practice, I’ve been incorporating more themes of joy in identity and clown imagery to round out darker themes and imaging.

While mainly using metal as my medium of choice, whether it be copper sheet, or larger scale foundry work, I like to include alternative materials and interdisciplinary practices to fill gaps in meaning and material limitations of metal. I’ve used fibers, plastics, coloring techniques, and natural materials like pig intestines to stretch beyond what the coldness of metal can give me and play on preconceptions of each different type of material.

I aim to connect myself with people who see themselves in my art and put out a reaching hand to those who are different from me and would like a glimpse into the way I see and experience the world. I would like my art to showcase feelings people hide from and force confrontation of all of our clashing personal truths in art that is humanlike in nature.