ARTIST STATEMENT

Emotional disruption is what guides my art-making, an interest developed through personal experience and passion. Specifically, it is the disruptive and disturbing combination of beauty and deformity that is the focus of my recent work.

The purpose is not to produce an either/or response to the clashing aspects of my work. Rather, I am striving to evoke a simultaneous sense of beauty and disturbance, a single uneasy feeling of attraction and repulsion.

In a practical sense, my three-dimensional work deals with 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 attempts to illustrate or reference the inadequacy of perceptions built solely upon appearances and first impressions.