Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist whose drawings, installations, and performances interrogate the power imbalances that shape women’s lives and the capitalist, patriarchal systems that restrict our bodies and the natural world. Through research and process-driven experimentation, I explore how societal expectations—around beauty, behavior, and productivity—parallel the exploitation and depletion of the earth’s resources. For my large-scale drawings on fabric and paper, I create custom tools, using found objects and my body to manipulate pigments. I press and move earthy materials like loose graphite and charcoal into richly textured, immersive surfaces that embody both fragility and resilience. Through repetitive patterns and gestures of mending, my work meditates on the restoration of self and environment, offering an antidote to the extractive forces that dominate society. My practice engages with the mystical and natural, fostering spaces for reflection, healing, and dialogue about social and environmental justice. By creating symbolic spaces where oppression and liberation coexist, I invite viewers to confront the economic systems that rely on overuse, disposability, and newness while advocating for a future that is interconnected, just, and sustainable.