Artist Statement

I am a multimedia artist, musician, and ecologist whose practice is rooted on the West Coast of the United States. My work exists as a liminal space for exploring dissonance and cohesion through interconnected yet dichotomous compositional relationships, informed by ephemera, mortality, nostalgia, whimsy, ecology, and a mythologization of the world as I observe it unfolding around me. I am drawn to depicting metamorphosis and fragile ephemerality across my music, illustrations, paintings, multimedia sculptures, zines, and photography. Through this work, I seek a harmony found in the acceptance of life’s simultaneous beauty and suffering, magic and meaninglessness. Ultimately, my practice gestures toward forms of communication that extend beyond the limits of language, offering viewers an open question about how they relate to being.

My practice spans digital and film photography, videography, acrylic paintings, and graphite illustration, with a recent expansion into multimedia sculptural work. In the fall of 2025, I focused exclusively on sculpting and metalworking, deepening my interest in tactile processes and material transformation. I incorporate into my work found objects and insects, drawn to their inherent symbolic associations with serendipity and subverted context. My work is characterized by meticulous detail and layered symbolism, creating harmony and tension through juxtaposing soft, delicate, romantic imagery with elements of jagged, dark surrealism. I approach each piece as a carefully constructed environment, embedding hidden elements and esoteric references that act as visual “easter eggs,” which serve as through lines and guideposts to keep the viewer searching and questioning. Through this process, I create immersive experiences where opposing emotions and concepts coexist.

I spent my earlier years as a photographer and videographer in Los Angeles, San Jose, and Philadelphia. As of 2018, my art practice re-centered on illustration and painting as a means of exploring greater creative agency and freedom of expression. These mediums offered a more accessible way to build immersive worlds and projects as a solo artist, while allowing me to be grounded in creating with hands-on materials. As of 2026, creating three-dimensional multimedia sculptural work has opened new possibilities for merging several art mediums, integrating conceptual approaches, and blending dimensional materiality with photo and video documentation. My art practice informs and reflects a constantly evolving and devolving sense of identity and belonging. Overall, my body of work resonates with currents of gothic surrealism, neo-romanticism, and post-internet materiality, and eco-aesthetics. Rather than prioritizing spectacle or conceptual distance, my work emphasizes intimacy and prolonged noticing. The meticulous detail, hidden references, and layered symbolism resist quick consumption, positioning my practice in quiet opposition to speed-driven visual culture. My practice contributes to an art world increasingly invested in embodiment, emotional resonance, and non-linear meaning.