My work is a confessional as much as a catharsis. I create abstract sculptural installations that draw on the emotion connected with personal experiences that have been disempowering to my sense of self. I use material whose malleability reveals delicacies that are desecrated the further I work with it — akin to ideas of body and consciousness being used over and over.

Red acts the central essence and tie in all these pieces, emulating intimate emotionality and physicality. My discernment of the social hierarchies and constructions that conceal emotional and physical harm is a central vulnerability and motivation of the work.

I use performance to insert my body into the work and to wire through the intimacy of that version of myself that rests within these moments. I allow myself to reassemble my feelings towards these experiences and simultaneously cite references to symbols of wine — as a subject of power and idea with the physical stain of memory — and found items that implicate specific American collegiate organizations and social decorums.

The central thesis of my work asks what fractures first — the symbol of disempowerment or the self trying to relinquish it? When harm hides in repetition, in the gestures embedded in social culture, how do we confront it? When social decorum conceals emotional betrayals, how can we trust the truth of our own experiences?