As we find ourselves twisted up in warped realities of life, I ground my being by connecting to nature. As a child I would play in nature, making fairy houses and puddle soup. I preserve the essence of my imaginative childhood through painting my present connection to nature. Feeling pieces of the earth, I place the viewer in my intimate position with nature through perspective. The work will often have a viewpoint of my body suggestively caressing the earth bringing tension and weirdness to these emotional environments. 

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     The work speaks about the interconnectedness within all things. Reflecting on the fragility of environments and the trauma within delicate ecosystems I consider intimacy, permission, privacy and protection. Evolving and adapting between artificial and natural realities and materials, I release my traumas, discovering what does and what doesn't nurture my body and nature from the abuse they have endured. 

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     Imagery and colors are psychologically driven and inspired by dreams and fantasy. I am fascinated by the concept of pareidolia in my work - the human tendency to see faces, images, animals, or objects in natural elements. I often see suggestive, bodily forms when interacting with nature.  Playing on this concept in my work, I challenge perceptions and question socially accepted realities. By connecting my body to nature in performative rituals, touching nature, and reproducing my imaginative visuals and photographs into paintings, my work consumes the viewers attention, intending to alter their consciousness and perception of the media involved in creation. Tactility and texture is vital to my work. Viscous mediums emote visceral responses and feelings. The lusciousness of painting allows me to portray my perspectives of reality and the colors, textures and fleshiness of life, emotions and nature. Bodily materials naturally reflect the gooey expulsions that physically and metaphorically ooze out of my work. 

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     Healing trauma through entangling with the earth and creating art has informed me that nothing that happens to the body is separate from the mind and the fragility of Mother Earth is just as fragile as our bodies. 

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     Through this vulnerable process, my lens has become more in-tune and aware of over-consumption, harmful, unnatural beauty standards, hierarchies and sexism. I wish for the perspective I place viewers in to be an inspiration to grow and heal by connecting with ourselves and nature. Honoring the beauty around us I transform the grotesque parts of ourselves and nature to love, knowing everything is interconnected.