Creating work across a wide ranging multidisciplinary practice including printmaking, painting, sculpture, installation and recorded performance, I explore how the repetition of deeply iconographic imagery and motifs reflect recurring, intrusive thought patterns. Repetition of compositional elements in new configurations reflect the inability of individuals to let go and move on. I am interested in how the endlessly repeating nature of the work reflects patterns of thought and rumination. I focus on inheritance and its complications- both the physical inheritance of objects, and the psychological and emotional inheritance, both good and ill, of shared experience and generational trauma. This work is a meditation on grief, the passage of time, the fleeting nature of joy, and the struggle to hold contradictory feelings simultaneously. It is also about the people who should be in the room, and are not there-  It is about the presence of absence. In a world of instant gratification, the act of sitting with heavy thoughts and repetitive processes for an extended time becomes a statement in itself, bringing that act to the content and context of the work. 

 

The work is about the complexity of closeness- the desire to separate from your past and return to it in the same breath. It asks, “Who am I when I am not defined by my relationship to you?”