My paintings and drawings are a translation of life perceived optically and internally. Interested in how reality fluctuates between internal consciousness and external decoration, I make paintings. The perception of reality through the lens of a single person’s vision is the premise of my first-person point-of-view compositions. I harvest moments of my life by through memory and by photographing and translating them onto two-dimensional compositions. Behaving as metaphors, I consider the objects in my works as beings without utilitarian function, much like the paintings themselves.

As a millennial engulfed by the endlessness of Netflix and the internet, I find the dissonance of the performative realities in “reality” TV programs a major symptom of our time. I use “still life” image-grabs from original seasons of the Bachelor and the Real Housewives of Orange County in my works to help me engage with contemporary culture, and discuss economic reality shifts; beauty and social habits; and popular normative value structures. Including these images from reality shows opens windows to nonlinear timelines and duplicity. Blurring the boundary between personal experience and shared experience creates a pulse of humanness. Posing as an atmosphere of inquiry, my work scrapes the surface of object philosophies while I maintain awareness and excitement for formal play. While I consider the limitations of linear and polarized value structures, through a wide context of plants, vessels, figures, stills from reality TV shows, and interiors, I resist applying a conceptual glaze to each work and can appreciate each work as a painting. I engage the viewer with loose art environments ranging in scale from inches to yards and bathe my paintings in plastic light.