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Yours Truly
Being from the south, I have had a love of junk stores for as long as I can remember. I still go there to relax, walk and think. When I moved to Boston to attend Tufts for grad school, I found great comfort in seeking out new junk stores. I realized then, not only do they fuel my imagination, their abundance of nostalgia reminds me of particular moments throughout my life. What the rest of the world half heartedly throws away has always fascinated me. There are endless opportunities to transcend myself to a particular place in time and it’s a game of chance. I think about all of the objects and the amount of preciousness they hold that keeps them all safe, there. They were too heavy to drag along but too precious to throw away.
I am a painter, sculptor and installation artist.
Through the combined language of painting, collaging and sculpting, I explore our emotional relationships to personal objects and the notion of Golden Age thinking. In my current work, I use painting and collage to explore our relationship to nostalgia and the collected. With incorporating antique papers into a contemporary context, I aim to visually bridge the gap between nostalgia and living in the moment. I paint my contemporary figures in likeness of classic renaissance, highlighting our relationship to “ideas” of the past. This also plays on their dismissive
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