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Aesthetically influenced by diverse iconography that includes classical painting and portraiture, street art, dream imagery, psychedelia, surrealism, and the art of non-western cultures, my art draws on the personal to reveal larger themes in the human experience. My work often deals with the fragility of the illusion of self, the relationships between humans and other sentient beings, the spiritual intelligence of nature, and ecstatic/meditative/ contemplative states. Exploring these themes through the creation of deeply feminine art, I seek the sacred both in nature and in the act of creating divine imagery. I'm intrigued by the parameters of “selfness”, and the way we aspire to and communicate with a vision of a higher self.  I speak to this yearning through the creation of self-portraits and self-based characters that inhabit dreamlike realms. I am interested in how this aspect of the human condition—the ability to perceive the world only through our own wounded and often fragile subjective experience—defines how we experience reality. During ecstatic states of consciousness, the apparent boundaries of the small self begin to dissolve, and allow us to engage with the other (whether human, plant, spirit, or animal) and the higher (no)self in a heightened way.

 

   Central to my reason for art-making is the idea of the collision of opposites, the interplay of the reality of human capacity for destruction and creative energy—that is both the crux of the human condition, and where beauty and meaning emerge. Life is a dark comedy, but beautiful nonetheless. Without the encounter between luminescence and shadow we would literally be unable to distinguish form. Beauty exists in the rupture that is created when the dark and light energy of all that is alive collides. It is this dichotomy that inspires my work; that which creates the desire to heal the wound of human experience through creating. Very simply, I create to make my internal world tangible, because imagination is closely related to spiritual experience. It is the point of contact with other realms that, when distracted by daily life, can seem infinitely distant. The truth is that imagination is always very close, and is, in fact, part of the very fabric of our nature. In this way, my art practice, before being a material or intellectual pursuit, is about a conscious participation with the mystery of being and a way of having agency in envisioning and shaping a more expansive reality.​