Artist Statement

I make art because I have to.

Not out of discipline or ambition, but because not making feels like holding something back that needs to move. It’s as essential to me as breathing — a way of staying present when the world feels loud, uncertain, or overwhelming.

The act of making gives me something steady to return to. In a world where so much exists beyond my control, the studio becomes a place where I can choose — where attention matters, where decisions carry weight. Creating is how I take control of what I can, without pretending the rest doesn’t exist.

I’m drawn to process — to repetition, persistence, and the focus it requires. The work builds through return rather than resolution, through staying with something long enough for it to reveal itself.

What matters to me just as much is what happens after the work leaves my hands. I care about engagement — about creating pieces that invite people in rather than hold them at a distance. I want the work to feel approachable, to create a moment where someone recognizes something of themselves without needing to be told what it means.

Across everything I make, there’s a consistent pull toward resilience and movement — not as spectacle, but as endurance. I’m interested in tension and transition, in the space between holding on and letting go, and in what it takes to keep moving when certainty isn’t available.

The work doesn’t aim to resolve those tensions. It sits with them.

I’m less interested in telling a story than in creating a place to pause — a moment where looking becomes feeling, where someone feels seen without being explained.

I create because it’s how I stay present.

Because it’s how I choose.

Because connection, like making, only happens when you allow space for it.