Artist statement

Working with a variety of mediums in order to mold the human form, I work to blend the disturbing parts of the human body with its beauty. I seek to capture the raw feelings revolving around self image expressed using body horror and anatomical knowledge. I want to both show vulnerability, but also have viewers experience that same sense of weakness, while learning to accept their flaws and how those unique oddities are what makes us human. Branching out from traditional fine arts with oil paints as a primary education is freeing to allow experimentation with other mediums, while continuing to use paint for some projects. Everything becomes a playground to explore moving the components of humans into something more evocative than what is typically thought of as fine arts figure paintings.