Drawings
My pieces reflect the nuances of my personality and my vulnerabilities when self-expressing. They are connected in the ways they return to the body and psyche, which communicates the ways I have or have not processed trauma and pain. My works come from a reality in which time is nonlinear, and space plays a large role in processing and understanding time. Whether it is a moment or eon, the present is only connected to our relationship to the observational world.
Key Works
Safe Space (2022) depicts a narrow underwater trench illuminated by deep sea creatures. At the bottom, a child’s silhouette is seen reading under the covers. Often being a safe space for a child exposed to trauma, I would escape through reading science and fantasy books as a child.
Self Sabotage (2022) is a highly detailed, stippled drawing of myself transformed into a snail, whilst covered in snails, seconds before shaking a saltshaker onto my tongue. I have always been obsessed with snails and feel emotionally connected to what a snail symbolizes; hibernation, determination, patience, vulnerability, and the way they are considered pests. This piece examines my self-esteem, depression, exhaustion, and addictions by dooming my snail self to a foamy death, at the expense of the snails covering me, which represent pesky memories and intrusive thoughts.
Daisy (2023) is the most recent stippled drawing that visualized an aspect of my grief, particularly when mourning my first dog, Daisy. A layered silhouette of the underside of a terrier skull is on top of a black background, mimicking the darkness of space, with a line that flows through the abstract composition. A crying eye adorned with a throned halo in one corner and a white void in the diagonal corner carries the line through it. This is to show that grief is not a linear process, and the healing can come in waves. While the physicality of the loss is absent, the energy of that soul is still one with the great Divine, which is commonly represented as space in my work.