Statement

     These four figures, which evolved into self-portraits, are a representation of the transformation from a flat past to a fully realized and solid present. Three paintings on un-stretched canvas fall onto the ground, creating an illusion of the figure standing in real space. She walks off of the wall and across the floor to confront the barrier or the moment of change. Once its crossed, she will never be the same. She goes headfirst, and the solid face breaks through the canvas. She is no longer a painting on the wall, but what is she? What will she become? Completing the transition, she stands powerfully in three dimensions, an embodiment of her new reality. She is me, and I am her. As if this chapter is one of true self-discovery.

     A dimension somewhere between yesterday and today, this life and the next, hurt and healing, the unknown and the new... as an artist, I don't choose what comes from my hands, Allowing myself space and time to see what comes into fruition is my process. I will work hours without pause or realization of time passed. That is how I know my work comes from the soul because getting lost in the work is my meditation. 

      I have always been fascinated by certain moments in our physical lives that mark a new chapter. Learning to walk, the first class that sparks a passion, moves, graduations, there are endless examples. Yet, in all of them, there is a specific moment in which life as you had once known it would never again be the same. I see these works as capturing the exact moment that everything changed.