Statement

Everything must come from something: whether that is the influence of ideas or the materials you use every day. Through my work I try to highlight this forgotten connection of traditional abrahamic religions and their pagan roots in tandem with modern materials being constructed of nature.

With acrylic paintings and paper mache sculptures utilizing found materials, I am interested in the reification, and thus the deification of nature through reclamation. Animistic religion and folklore paint the background of history and these traces are still prevalent in the traditions of modern day abrahamic practice. And yet there is a disconnect and an unawareness of this past. The same can be said for objects. We use materials; they are inherent to our existence yet we do not pay reverence to them as we discard them, not remembering that the paper was once a tree.

The prevalence of cycles is woven throughout my work, represented through my visual language of the circle motif and abstract patterns. From central compositions in paintings, to the recycling of old art projects into paper mache, I strive to make art that is rooted yet not explicit, constructed and wild, dead and alive.