Statement

In the course of my MFA program I reimagined my studio as a laboratory rather than a production space, opening me to possibilities and leading me in more fruitful directions. Guided by questions around space, structures, layering, and transparency, my practice is multi-disciplinary.

Painting, hand papermaking, collage, and non-traditional sculpture open me to the liminal spaces where consciousness entangles with intangibles such as trauma, memory, resilience. I am curious about the inherent nature of materials and matter itself, and where our mutual explorations might lead. The grand-daughter of genocide survivors, I am drawn to artists working from a lineage of diaspora and displacement, and to the importance of making art as an act of remembering in a culture increasingly obsessed with forgetting.

I am possessed by a lifelong fascination with the elemental world, and how Nature can be a vessel for spirit, myth and memory. Therein lie tensions between the perception of what is real and the hidden worlds: sometimes silence and emptiness is anything but. I perceive Western concepts of time as ghostly constructs, haunted by distortion, fragmentation, indeterminacy, non-linearity, tragedy. In counterpoise to these ethereal concerns is my desire to capture what is human and exquisite.