In my most recent body of work, Between Two Worlds, I’m inspired by narratives where a heroine is led down the rabbit hole, into the woods, or on the yellow brick road – and she finds the answers she’s been searching for within herself.  This series of paintings is a conversation with the creative ghost inside me– a painter is a magician, a conjurer, someone who brings images to life – but where do those images come from exactly?  What about the desire to create them and release them into the world? 

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In these paintings, characters like angels, fractured selves of alternate timelines, and spirit guides appeared to me in hazy painterly expressions --  found through creation and destruction, disciplined practice, failure and repetition. I’m considering the artist as a filter for everything she’s ever seen before: While painting, I hear the voices of my artistic muses, I conjure feelings from the music and media and art I’ve consumed, I find my loved ones in making a subjectless portrait – just as in a dream, every face is one you’ve already seen.

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Pulling those fuzzy memories of images and forgotten feelings out of abstract shapes on a canvas is magic to me. A painting is an act of devotion, a prayer to the divine, a thank-you for showing me symbols and sensations, a guide towards the path to my higher self. These paintings are a record of my personal growth and healing found through constant conversation on a blank canvas (a mirror) in which I hope you can find yourself reflected somewhere too. 

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On view at Redux Contemporary Art Center, Sept 22- Nov 4, 2023