artist statement

My work emerges from curiosity and the urge to explore what happens when control gives way to intuition, experimentation, and imagination.

I work with a wide range of techniques and materials, including graphite and watercolor, textiles, mixed media, and sculptural elements. In the process of making, the familiar often takes an unexpected turn: what is known shifts, transforms, or acquires new meanings.

Humor, vulnerability, and a touch of surrealism run like a common thread through my work. I am not searching for clear-cut answers, but for images that leave space for imagination and association. I enjoy working in the space between the literal and the figurative.

By experimenting with material, form, and meaning, I explore the tension between control and freedom, between holding on and letting go, between rebellion and acceptance, between what we think we can master and what escapes our control.

My sources of inspiration move within these same fields of tension: the individual and the collective, control and instinct, humor and critique, speaking and silence, freedom and social pressure. Figures and imagery from folk culture, pop culture, and nature function in my work as symbols of behavior, tension, communication, and resistance.