Artist Statement

My practice as an artist hybridizes physical and digital drawing and painting. I make eclectic, experimental work that explores being “neither here nor there:” themes of otherness, ambiguity, transformation, and fluidity informed by multiracial, neurodiverse, and queer perspective intersecting in a digital world.

The core of my technique and approach is influenced by architectural drawing and mid 1990s drawing software. These structured, precise, and hierarchical drawing modes are broken, reappropriated, and queered through untethered experimentation, acceptance of failure, and playful surrealism. There are tensions in the work both visually and of process, between loose improvised elements and precise organization. This oscillation between chaos and tight ordered control is expressed, emphasized, and challenged in my work as an analogue to my relationship with ADHD.

My practice continues to grow more introspective as I grow older. Memories and dreams are subjects informed by imagined possibilities, inherited trauma, and fractured histories. With awareness of those histories, I am interested in topics or erasure, passing, exploitation, and shifting identity politics. Through visual and conceptual plasticity and transformation, I celebrate the joys of mixture, mess, the unknown, and possibility.