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• My artwork thematically explores thought patterns, contradictions, and the cycles humans physically/psychologically put ourselves in and play into. My ceramic people have hidden parts of themselves that the viewer can observe to try and understand their point of view and perhaps empathize with their story and the feelings they express. My 2D drawings showcase people’s mental presences, fleeting memories, intrusive thoughts, or daydreams/imagination. I face-paint my body to match my style and people, to explore emotions, tell stories and become a version of roles in societies. Every day there are humans that want to deflate the world by constrictions with the goal of boring, homogenous scripted living. I hope my work can inspire vibrance and empathy so that when other humans encounter each other they uncover the story of being.

• During undergrad I investigated how television can create mental fears and ideas about life, creating the installation of Absorption Preserve 2016.

• Park of Infinite Connections 2019, my MFA Thesis examined individuals’ attitudes and relationship to being social, virtual connections, and being remembered. Inspired by Irrealism, I created unique figures who reveal particular human emotions and beliefs that are caused by an awareness of the present, past, and/or future.  The Ceramic People play within the internal and external worlds that individuals simultaneously live. Watching the beginnings of YouTube, and participating in it from teenage-adult life, the idea of socializing virtually was not something new. Now the world is catching up with social distancing due to the pandemic of 2020.

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