Artist Statement

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I am an artist working at the intersection of storytelling, performance, and visual art. As a highly sensitive person (HSP), I perceive the world in vivid colors, think simultaneously across different media, and find myself unable to remain within a single form. My practice shifts from medium to medium as a reflection of that inner movement. Sometimes it follows a story or concept, and sometimes it is intuitive, esoteric, and playful. My practice blurs life and art, sustaining a constant motion of creation in which experience and form continuously reshape one another.

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I strictly reject and undermine purism, both as an aesthetic and ethical stance. Therefore, I interweave styles, techniques, and media in most of my works, and my portfolio varies in style, method, and approach. Though this website is divided by media for convenience, most works are inherently hybrid. Principally, I make art rather than Art. It is most often DIY, homemade, straight forward work. 

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Writing is my starting point. I conduct academic research, investigative journalism, and novel development, and from there projects evolve into graphic novels, mixed-media installations, drawings and prints, concerts, radio pieces, or performances.

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When I play drums, I integrate text or relocate the act into a gallery rather than a music venue. My graphic novels contain essays and textual stories; panels are sometimes drawn directly on walls, installed in exhibition spaces instead of printed, or adapted into radio dramas and live shows. I use archival materials — medical files, military and financial documents, family stories — as raw matter: sometimes as reference, sometimes as tempered ready-mades embedded within the work. Digital still drawings become films with no cinematic movement. Between larger projects, I create small single-action performances — palette cleansers, if I may — that grow into chains of human gestures.