My work is a means to close wounds. My artistic language is informed by the specters of the abject and art brut, reducing expression to primal cries towards meanings. Through this I hope to continually forge a balanced identity diminishing its reliance on memory (cultural and personal) in its many faults and myths: to better speak to the issues of the traumatically afflicted individual. Not writing them off as solitary pariahs but as victims of external illnesses- of people seeking empire rather than liberation. The conditions would then be set for the artist to act as a catalyst for absurd infringements upon complacency.

EXTRAPOLATION a continuation of thought-

My work seeks to erode a hierarchy of medium and materials. Grades of all kinds are utilized when considering my materials and all work in a disparate yet harmonious way to achieve the realization of my subject matter. My work has often been characterized as "dark" or "angsty" and this is something I do lean into from time to time. But I think an important distinction needs to be made, these emotions or feelings are not to be castigated or relegated to an era of one's life or to the subturfuge of the underground counter-culture. These sometimes grotesque and ugly manifestations are a part of the human experience, and with every effort to quell them, one runs the risk of bottling these necessary and primal feelings to the point of great implosion. The work seeks to analyze these oft-hidden negative emotions and to use them to find an abject beauty that exists beyond traditional conceptions of what is "good" or "acceptable".