ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a visual artist from Des Moines, Iowa who creates multi media drawings on paper and through video using India ink, chalk pastel, and photography. My work is raw and lively, with loose, gestural marks contrasted by defined forms and figures. Each piece breaks free from the standard square frame, featuring cut, shaped edges that combine in multiple chunks to form a larger organism when installed together.

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Each piece is intimate, like a conversation between close friends or reading someone’s journal. Visceral imagery, sprinkled with humor, narrative elements, and intense use of color, reflects intentional and precise human decision. This extends in themes of individualism, affirming that every aspect of each person’s life, including their death, holds immense value and purpose. My drawings encourage transcendence and transformation, not as a passive being, but intentionally looking toward goals that surpass our short term vision. I aim not for perfection, but for wholeness and accuracy through absurdity.