The Lion Room

Artist Statement 

I do not feel the need to seek inspiration intentionally; the path I walk is fruitful and constantly offers visual stimulation. I wake already surrounded by voices, objects, repetitions, and fragments waiting patiently to be listened to, I would not know how to exist otherwise.

As an artist, I often feel misplaced, but as a magpie, I am welcomed. Nostalgia for a time I inhabited and did not inhabit is perhaps the simplest way to describe my practice, though beneath it sits childhood loss, folklore, fairy-tale propaganda, preservation, and a kind of gaudy excessiveness – bacon upon butter. I move quickly between processes and materials because change itself excites me; experimentation creates further breeding grounds for obsession. I often abandon stories midway through their telling, but like many things in my life, they return when they are ready.