My work is a manifestation of the displacement and the absurd conditions I feel in relation to being alive. I capture the innate want to stare into something unsettling. This benign masochism, the phenomenon that makes you unable to look away from things like a car crash, provides a window from which I can explore this morbid curiosity. This fascination is something that has always possessed me, and has provided for a lot of odd life experiences and a lot of good stories. Growing up in a farm town with a mother that is a biologist, I got used to being around decay in a scientific capacity. Death became a constant in my life, one I often struggled with conceptualizing and understanding. I had a lot of anxiety about the idea and still do, and my work can provide me a way to grapple with this discomfort. 

I focus on finding materials that provide me with a direct path to this unsettling outcome. I work through these materials to bring out the most unnerving textures within their capabilities.  I have a history with struggle that I incorporate into my work. I like to give myself challenges and work on discovery. Because of my displacement within my own existence, I find comfort in the tensity that struggling to achieve something brings to the table. In order for my work to function properly these forces of displacement, absurdity, and anxiety have to be present and act as a catalyst throughout my whole process. 

I find myself relating to and taking inspiration heavily from Lee Bontecou, Eva Hesse, and Sarah Sze.  These artists have given me great inspiration for work that is unsettling in nature yet still striking. What has resonated with me the most, however, is how they speak about their art practices. I find comfort in how Hesse talks about her sculptures relating to how absurd her life has been. I think in order for my sculptures to be absurd my life has to be absurd. I am inspired by Bonticou’s sentiment that she captures ugliness and beauty that everyone experiences in their life. I have always had discomfort in the systems I live under. It is something that weighs constantly on my mind, and comes naturally in the works that I create. By bringing this discomfort to the forefront of my works, I in turn can capture a universal experience of disorder.