My work focusses on the experience of growth in the presence of trauma, and how studio practices not only give space to produce contemporary work but provide an alternative form of coping and healing. In my work, I heavily exercise mark-making to challenge how obsession and repetition, as well as notions of decay and growth, present themselves through materiality and drawing emphasized practices. This leads my working methods to not only recognize the non-linear function to growth, but yield from processing discomfort, building resilience, and holding space for the messy, complicated, and sometimes backwards nature of being human in a world where trauma is more common than most realize.  

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Through the use of large-scale charcoal drawings, rubbings, and experimentation with polyethylene, I employ methods that stimulate a visceral central nervous system response, creating a system to confront impulsivity, reactive sensitivity, cyclical cognitive behaviours, and advance fundamental skills involved with building resilience in both artistic and life-based circumstances. The purpose of these methods is to increase proficiency in recognizing and rewriting perspectives rooted in trauma, and to work on exposing, revealing, and interrogating, the underlying experiential challenges in consequence of unprocessed trauma.

 

In the future, my work will extend to include a deeper investigation into the architectural impact on human psychological experience in reference to the presence of trauma and situational distress. ​​​​​​​​​

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