my work has always been an act of documentation. documenting self. documenting grief and release as a means of reflection and the performance of said actions. the day i realized everything must be mourned was when my life changed and my art practice began. every time a constant is removed whether it be a person, a relationship, a friendship, a sense of self, or even a favorite tv show, there is a need to address and mourn the loss of that constant. 

now i attempt to recognize and acknowledge all the space for sweetness and growth that loss also affords us. it is no longer just a reconciliation of the losses that have opened me to grief and the pain that has come along with it but the recognition of space and a celebration of what still is that serves as the real resistance and hope. while much of my art and writing works as a personal reconciliation of how the world anterior of myself has affected me interiorly it is deeply embedded in truth.  for the more honest i can be within my work - even in the abstract - i have found the more relatable it becomes to others.