I am interested in depicting a web of continuums that connect ideas, objects, organisms, and images in our world. By developing these organically composed diagrams, I hope to more closely examine the reasoning employed by both other people and myself when placing relationships along the continuum from clearly connected to obviously disassociated. I am particularly fascinated with the continuum between identity philosophies that place emphasis on individualism, and those that place emphasis on society as a whole in which the individual plays a small part. Through both literal and metaphorical depictions of conjoined bodies, inner and parallel worlds, animals, and tattoos, I look to question the separation between these philosophies. My artwork houses the meeting of these concepts where the elusive notion of clarity of identity is explored.

My work stems from a tradition ranging from Christian Schad and early Lucien Freud to Walton Ford, Inka Essenhigh, and Judith Schaechter. Through the mediums of oil, watercolor, gouache, graphite and ink, I produce imagery that is at once both striking and unsettling. Vivid colors and masses of precise lines illuminate conjoined figures, animals, tattoos, and intricate detail. This detailing mirrors both the complexity of the society one is immersed in while establishing personal identity, and the complexity of identity itself. I continually utilize a mixture of personal and cultural symbolic vocabularies. These serve as reference not only to art history, but also to the ability of a symbolic image to have numerous meanings or identities. I intend for the compilation of these formal and conceptual relationships to parallel the unending intricacies of identity.