Artist Statement

My work explores the tensions between desire, excess, tenderness, and shame. To me, these states coexist, press against one another, and leave residual marks. My practice gives them form. I construct objects and environments that hold contradictions the way a body does: vulnerable yet willful, ornate yet unstable. 

I am drawn to the moment when beauty begins to strain under its own weight and abundance tips toward rupture. When the familiar becomes ceremonial and then unsettling. The table overflows. The fruit splits. The heart refuses containment.

Inspired by domestic ritual, religious aesthetics, and queer embodiment, I reclaim what was once deemed as too much or improper. I am not concerned with purification or resolution. I am interested in the pressure that happens when longing, memory, and belief accumulate and demand space.