Artist Statement

I am a multidisciplinary artist. Currently, my primary focus is photography, painting, and sculpture. My conceptual focus centers on people's relationships with emotions and color. I am particularly interested in the psychology of emotions and how they are portrayed through portraiture, as well as color psychology and how one's relationship with color affects emotion, including both the inner and outer expression of my subjects. 

In an attempt to understand what compels my portrait subjects to express their emotions through actions and their relationship to color, I often get to know them through vulnerable conversations and interviews as a part of my studio practice. In my experience, there is an emotional spectrum between causation and the resulting emotional response or action. Therefore, color affects people differently based on social, cultural and personal experiences. I believe that voicing one's emotions can often be socially challenging, leading to mismatched responses that could be rooted in childhood development. 

An important part of my artistic practice is capturing a portion of my subject’s story. Through my study of my subjects’ experiences of expression, I work with them to translate their feelings into my final body of work.