My work portrays metamorphosis through emotional and psychological states. I have begun to develop a terminology of spills both in language and in space. These spills take a multitude of forms: a mental spill, a spill of honey, a spill on the canvas, a purging, a mess. I see spills as being an intentional loss of control. I am initiating the spill, but once it happens it is in the world and no longer subject to my hand. In my work a lack of control translates into a freedom, chaos, and even theatricality.

I have come to see my work as being representative of a meta-gender – where the work is not overtly feminine, masculine, or both at once, but rather it rises above gender through its direct confrontation of gender-specific materials and references, and gender-specific attitudes such as masculine aggression or feminine emotionality. I want the work to speak to issues of gender and gender identity while still identifying broader emotional and psychological states.

I see the world around me as changing at an increasingly fast pace. There is a tremendous amount of anxiety about where we are currently and where we are going as a society, a nation, and a species. I am very interested in the constant change one goes through internally as juxtaposed with the universal change happening in the world. I am also interested in the parts that are unchangeable and rooted in tradition. I think the drama in my work speaks to the significance of these movements, toward both a more liberal and a more conservative world. The work is tied to a sense of urgency, which reflects my own personal views on the precarious state of things, as well as the reality of our present condition as it unfurls into the uncertainty of the future.