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When we are presented with familiar objects like a net or a coat rack, it is easy to attribute certain connotations and functions to them. So, what happens when we are presented with those same objects, but transformed in an effort to reshape our experience of them?

I draw from personal experiences of grief and loss to navigate questions of identity. My work fabricates traditionally functional objects whose forms are manipulated and distorted, pushing an altered understanding of perception that reflects how I experience subjecthood. I create visual language through a fusion of negative space and tension.

In moments where feelings surrounding grief and loss are unclear or unresolved, I aim to explore a point of (dis)connection. I use traditionally functional objects as affective abstract bodies. This dialectical process pushes normative domestic objects into abstract forms that are re-oriented, disassembled, fragmented, stiffened, etc as distorted bodies, trying to reassert themselves.

My work reflects the resilience of people—how we endure life’s obstacles, survive, and move forward toward moments of clarity. I am drawn to making objects that fight to persist, even in a world that doesn’t always feel promising. They endure. They remain.