Through my artistic practice, I try to make sense of my own experience of being - recently, more specifically, what it is to be. I have found myself addressing questions about meaning, my own existence, and my existence in relation to those of others. I attempt to better understand these things by giving them a tangibility and existence of their own, outside of myself. I consider gesture, mark, and the body; The figures I create within the work, and my own body while drawing them. 

The varying dialogues and dynamics inherent to the figures are not predetermined, but unfold as they do; As they come to be, I respond to them in attempt to solidify their being. While my work brings forth new existences within these abstracted forms, it speaks equally to my own existence through my mark and body. I give myself over to the intuitive nature of drawing and mark-making in hopes of reaching some sort of essential part of my own being.

The work I am making about these ideas not only serves as a mode of thinking, but as confirmation of my own existence. These works’ primary function is not to portray, but to record; They act as an internal dialogue revealed.