artist statement

I’m an artist whose work revolves on the themes of the natural world, the body as a place, and togetherness. I strive to feel the past and present of the body with sensate awareness. Then I translate the visions and emotions into visual topographies and gestural worlds composed of living, growing, shapeshifting materials including grass, rock, wildflowers, vines, artists, and people to open up a space for us to feel up to the edge of what we can know. For me, nature and my body are inseparable from the margins and the politics of location. Wildflowers and gestures blooming just at the speed of perception become metaphors for the entanglements of the South, all the while holding the capacity for change and reinvention. I think of my art as devotion that pays homage to the effort of living in order for us to feel it in our bones. Flocking patterns reminiscent of Georgia red-winged blackbirds, and a never - ending poem, choreographed gestures and topographies take the form of a sermon, inviting our distracted gaze to catch glimpses of surrealism. Drawing on ideas of a collective unconscious, I seek to create an alternative time and space where we might understand individual subjectivity is formed in relations to others, and always in motion. My intention is to open up a space for a ceremony somewhere between nature and a moment. I often indirectly point to our perceptions of what we are when we are alone vs. what we are when we are together. Through this endeavor, I hope to allow for a kind of transformation of both the artist and the public - for liberation. I invite strangers to become a collaborator, and family. My work is an organic flow, each medium seamlessly intersecting with the others to create the endless movement.