I use drawing, painting, and sculpture to build whimsical, fictional worlds that reference the physical environments I regularly participate in. These worlds investigate everyday life and attempt to entrench adolescent glee into seemingly mundane activities and experiences. I aim to construct worlds that are both within reach and unreachable; these spaces become recognizable, yet somewhat otherworldly. This way of making allows me to occupy the area between what is “real” and what is “fantasy,” ultimately giving me a place to both cope with the complexity that permeates everyday life and imagine alternatives to current systems and structures. It is through these worlds that I envision a place where play is vital to everyday existence, instead of being suppressed by constant work and responsibility.
These mediums encourage both intimacy and play between myself and the work, and I allow myself to become immersed not only in the act of making but also in the world being materialized. I use ceramic, acrylic, crayon, marker, pencil, pen, and paper, among others, in aims to capture memories and moments instantaneously when they appear; this immediacy encourages unrestrained making, focusing less on “correct” technique and more on the vision being imagined. I find the use of these materials vital to my artmaking; these materials, which mimic those that were available to me as a child, help reinforce my pursuit of play and legitimize the use of “adolescent” materials. Using these materials encourages constructive conversation on how art is talked about and categorized, giving much needed representation to materials easily available to all. Through this investigation, I aim to make my work more widely accessible for viewers, showcasing that anyone–and any materials–can play an important role in contemporary artmaking.
Attention is given to humanoid, anthropomorphized, and abstracted forms, food, plants, weather, color, and pattern. The humanoid forms depicted represent aspects of human activity; they are ambiguous impressions rather than specific traits. Events and experiences with a myriad of human interactions drain my body and mind of energy, and these impressions are left for me to analyze.
These mediums encourage both intimacy and play between myself and the work, and I allow myself to become immersed not only in the act of making but also in the world being materialized. I use ceramic, acrylic, crayon, marker, pencil, pen, and paper, among others, in aims to capture memories and moments instantaneously when they appear; this immediacy encourages unrestrained making, focusing less on “correct” technique and more on the vision being imagined. I find the use of these materials vital to my artmaking; these materials, which mimic those that were available to me as a child, help reinforce my pursuit of play and legitimize the use of “adolescent” materials. Using these materials encourages constructive conversation on how art is talked about and categorized, giving much needed representation to materials easily available to all. Through this investigation, I aim to make my work more widely accessible for viewers, showcasing that anyone–and any materials–can play an important role in contemporary artmaking.
Attention is given to humanoid, anthropomorphized, and abstracted forms, food, plants, weather, color, and pattern. The humanoid forms depicted represent aspects of human activity; they are ambiguous impressions rather than specific traits. Events and experiences with a myriad of human interactions drain my body and mind of energy, and these impressions are left for me to analyze.
