“My work investigates the inner self and is motivated by a sensitivity to my own behaviors, in conjunction with the interactions between others. I am interested in how personal conflicts and anxieties can manifest themselves into restrictive behavior that frames all interaction with the outside world. In these works, characters experience a variety of emotional absences that are dealt with through the creation of unique types of self defenses. They obsessively attempt to construct stable environments, yet produce intimate isolated shelters. Their attempts fail to repair yet produce uniquely personal and obscure spaces for the viewer, while satisfying their self-destructive needs. Their unobtainable desires and anxieties are echoed in the forms that construct their environments, and by the use of symbolic devices. The struggle between the inner self and the accurate depiction of that self to the outside world is something I find to be crippling yet fascinating, and I feel this is the basis for the themes I tend to use in my work. The themes that I feel most strongly about and that are most apparent in my work are intimacy, anxiety and supression, self-destructive behavior, sexuality and gender, and death.”
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| Funerary | Sacrifice |
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| Untitled | The gap |