Artist Statement

Through representational painting and drawing, my work expressively combines topics of hyper-consumerism, farming practices, ethnobotany, dangers of contemporary industrialization, and distant memories of playful nostalgia. Many factors inspire my thinking and the academic research involved preceding the physical creation of my artwork, ranging from radical explorations of environmental activism in the mistreatment of humans and animals alike due to large-scale farming systems to the influences surrounding Anthroposophy and biodynamic farming. Since my work is rooted in contemporary environmental concerns caused by humanity, I find academic research to be the primary location for investigation, where my ideas sprout that lend to my subject matter. 

My artwork is an evocation of large and subtle anthropogenic disruptions and harmonies in tandem. They serve as visual reactions of our fractured relationship to food systems as well as the contrasting raw tenderness we hold in our connection to the earth as existent in human nature. I draw out modern histories and physicalities of food and plant groups in relation to species I grew up with. The work is playful in color and gesture, often additionally attracting attention towards how we traverse as social creatures, consuming the contemporary world we live in with all its many offerings and vices.