statement
(May 2010)
Conversations, media/tv/print, and the work of other artists often serve as catalysts for my ideas. I seek to explore a given idea and find the most appropriate method for conveying that concept whether it is drawing, painting, or creating a three dimensional object.
Currently, my focus is on developing work that explores the areas where general enculturation overlaps with the lived experience of being “white” and female. Using personal experiences, memories, and mementos as a starting point I seek to produce work which will begin to question and examine whiteness. This is, as I am finding out, extremely difficult. How does one talk about whiteness without the dialogue getting lost in the blizzard that it is? Additionally, notions of absence, memory, and feminism are present in much of my work.
