Artist Statement
My work focuses on exploring memories from my childhood and reclaiming agency for myself within them. I often find myself looking for verification of my own existence in images where I am addressing the viewer in events I can remember, but especially in ones I cannot. I have found an interest in skeletons both for their anonymity and representation of loss. My reference images are of buried remains and it is important to me that the skeletons are life-sized to be easily relatable and vibrant to show the life they lived. I use cyanotype to emphasize the haziness of recollection as well as how memories and people imprint on us. In some paintings I use Tambour beading as a reference to childhood costumes and adornment. I aim to show the many layers of loss experienced with memory and recollection and how those losses are always present either as people or moments in a graveyard-like collection.