Personal Statement: My work is a personal investigation into the aspects of loss and of longing that are very peculiarly female. I am very interested in the idea of a state of innocence and I wonder how it is that this innocence can be lost. After leaving that state of grace, one becomes aware of one’s own constant state of vulnerability - a state that we all inhabit as physical bodies occupying space.

For my subject matter, I am drawn to using sweet, kitschy, nostalgic images of women as portrayed in 1950's & 60's media, which I transpose into precarious environments & darkly pretty, melancholic psychological spaces. My drawings & videos rely on a melodramatic sensibility to emphasize the heightened anxiety and the interior dilemma of the subject. Other interests that come up in my work include kitsch, cliché, cliques, emptiness, tragedy, fashion, dolls, beauty, & mental illness.