Artist Statement
My multi-disciplinary artistic practice is grounded in photography, writing, movement, performance, and community. As a California artist, signals of sun, sky, ocean, and freeways inform my body of work and timeless aesthetic. I take an alchemist approach to storytelling in order to transform personal and collective wounds. Critical to my practice is a focus on style and design through moments of play and laughter, gut-checks and stillness, connection and curiosity.
Forms
I tell stories using my own face, the movements of my body, and those of the collective body and environment. My words as a writer, lens as a photographer, sweep of my arm as a dancer, and pose as a model consider the intersection of visual planes and light. My practice seeks to unravel psychological and physical knots by transforming emotions and shapes into new creative works.
Environment
I compose and frame mise-en-scenes by working with what is present, be it my face or the existing environment. My creative direction uses my physical body, social body, and spatial bodies — architecture, lightscapes, visual frames, and vectors — as sites of study and practice. I construct, disclose, and assert my own identity just as I am drawn to the images, forms, and constructions created by others.
