Artist Statement

I am a mixed-media artist focused on exploring spirituality, faith, and hope through personal memory and shared everyday experiences. My collage installations and artist books combine inherited fabrics, found objects, and cut paper with watercolor, acrylic, and graphite renderings. Visually I walk the border between the physical and the spiritual, arranging fragments of realism with ethereal elements in pastel palettes. Employing motifs of Christian iconography such as halos, gold foil, and Madonna-like figures, I recontextualize the restoration narrative of Christianity, raising questions of God’s significance in contemporary human experiences through autobiographical allegory. In tandem, I am interested in the overlapping of the common and the sacred, the ordinary and holy, the medial and the spiritual - and how these seemingly divergent impressions of daily life coexist and hold meaning for each other. Through my storied works I hope to create soft spaces where the viewer may safely engage with their own spirituality.