ARTIST STATEMENT

The disruptive and disturbing combination of beauty and deformity is the focus of my work. I am striving to evoke a simultaneous sense of beauty and disturbance, a single uneasy feeling of attraction and repulsion.

I am intrigued by what is visible on the exterior versus what is hidden inside, whether that be the disorders lurking within a normal-looking child or the emptiness inside an attractive package. My work strives to express the inadequacy of perceptions built solely upon appearances and first impressions.