Artist Statement

My work, above all else, is meant to tell a story, whether I consciously mean for it to or not. I’ve always found my preference for subjects to lean heavily towards the human form, primarily via portraiture or scenes of action, where I work in anything from painting, to drawing, to printmaking, or to digital art. In a way that likely stems from a love of reading that I’ve nurtured since childhood, I am compelled by characters, by their actions, and by the vision that the combination invokes. Additionally, my works are singular testaments to the emotions that they were created within. I have always found art to be a means of emotional catharsis, and every individual piece of my work is a product of the fluid and ranged emotion spurned during the course of its production. From melancholy, to placidity, to exhaustion, to rage, to sorrow, to annoyance, to far more, each artwork represents a unique combination of feelings, like DNA, woven into its narrative. It is difficult for me to voice the stories behind my work, not only because they’re often deeply personal and difficult to articulate, but also because I abhor the thought of transposing my own viewpoint onto someone else’s experience with art, especially works done by my own hand. There is nothing more precious in this world, I think, than the distinct and irreproducible point of view that is gifted to every single person in this world. To muddy that is akin to blasphemy, because what I want most for my work is to present a story, even just a little piece of one, and for every single person who views it to have the chance to invent the rest of the narrative for themselves, complete with their own individual and unique perspective of the world.