Through woodworking, printmaking and writing, my work explores tense moments of reckoning where objects act as characters whose realities are devolving or fracturing.

My materials, especially the insulation foam, describe a sensibility that is cruddy, distressed, colonial, vulnerable, and rugged. The objects hold certain material memories still enough for me to see the persistent questions in my content, or even further fracturing my questions into new questions. For example: what is private property, isolation, Catholic school, suicide, fucking in a locked car, opioid use? What does it feel like outside the light of the bonfire, the street light, the porch light? What does the air feel like? How does it smell? What does my skin feel like? Why is it like that?

So a swirling cloud of memory and materiality gets translated into the objects and their surface treatments, into the forms they take to tell (or fracture) a story.

• Heirloom Convoy
• 2024 MFA Thesis