Artist Statement

My work exists at the intersection of beauty and urgency.

I create art as both refuge and reckoning spaces where wonder, grief, pleasure,
and existential threat coexist. Across two distinct but philosophically linked bodies of work,
I explore how humans metabolize fear, meaning, and responsibility in a fragile world.

The first track of my practice is rooted in landscape and sky. Painted in oil and acrylic, these works
emerge from sustained observation of the Santa Fe horizon; its vast skies, shifting light, and quiet power.
These paintings are not depictions of place as much as they are states of being.
The land becomes a mirror for inner weather: stillness, resilience, longing, reverence.
In an era of acceleration and fragmentation, these works offer slowness, contemplation,
and the radical act of looking deeply.

Running parallel is my conceptual practice, most notably Existential Snacks, a body of work that uses mass-produced candy, processed foods, and consumer materials to address the most serious threats facing humanity: climate collapse, nuclear anxiety, ecological grief, and cultural numbness. Bright, seductive, and immediately recognizable, these materials function as a Trojan horse which invites viewers in through familiarity before confronting them with the uncomfortable truth of what we consume, ignore, and normalize. Sweetness becomes menace. Play becomes warning.

Materiality is central to my process. I move fluidly between traditional fine art media, new technologies and unconventional, often disposable materials, allowing form and substance to carry conceptual weight. My practice is deeply influenced by feminist art history, medical humanities, environmental ethics, and existential philosophy. I am interested in what is beautiful enough to hold our attention and honest enough to hold our fear.

Ultimately, my work asks:
How do we stay awake without becoming paralyzed?
How do we love the world while acknowledging its precarity?
And how might art function not just as commentary—but as witness, prayer, and provocation?