I explore identity as something unstable, inherited, and continually changing. Drawing from my experience growing up in Southeastern Ohio, I use personal and familial histories shaped by the women who raised me, and my experiences as a twin, as a point of departure. I am interested in how memory is carried through the body, how gestures, emotions, and dynamics are repeated and reshaped across time. I approach artmaking as a way to access these internal, often intangible states.

Working with painting, drawing, and mixed media, I explore non-objective abstraction as a means of disrupting fixed representation. Using water-based and drawing materials such as watercolor, gouache, soft pastel, oil pastel, colored pencil, and water-soluble crayon, I build layered, responsive surfaces that allow forms to emerge and dissolve. Figures appear only partially, if at all, often embedded within or indistinguishable from the surroundings. This reflects my interest in the body not as a stable form, but as something that is experienced, shifting, and continuously becoming.

I am drawn to in between states, where memory blurs, where presence and absence coexist, and where recognition slips into abstraction. My process mirrors the nonlinear way memory is constructed. Materials are built up, erased, and reconfigured, leaving traces of earlier decisions visible beneath the surface. In this way, the work becomes a record of its own making, echoing how personal and inherited histories accumulate over time. The instability of the image allows for multiple readings, inviting viewers to navigate their own associations within the work.

Ultimately, my practice is an act of returning and remaking. It reflects the deep influence of the women who raised me, the landscapes that held my childhood, and the evolving understanding of who I am within those narratives. I create spaces where identity is not fixed but continuously becoming, held in a state of tension between what is remembered, imagined, and felt.