Artist Statement

Often taking direct inspiration from my personal memories and life experience, I aim to explore the relationship between hyperspecificity and universal commonalities in the human experience. Reflecting on growing up in a multicultural home, investigating the absurdities of living in a rapidly advancing technological society, and observing life during the covid-19 pandemic are a few of the subjects I have previously focused on in my work.  

 

My work is ultimately a practice in storytelling, as I am inspired by the fundamental exchange of information between artist and audience, and how the curation of images can elicit specific emotional responses in the viewer. It is this process of visual communication that motivates me to create my artwork, as I am  continually playing with the balance between universally recognized symbols and personally significant imagery.

 

Giving my work intentional titles is one of the methods that I use to bridge the connection between the specific and the universal, often naming pieces in ways that clue in the audience to the context of the personal images being used. Conversely in my collage and video work, I almost exclusively use material sourced in the public domain as a way to materially access the “universal”. It is this juxtaposition of the personal and the universal that is central to creating the narratives in my work.