Refractions is a series of drawings and installation-based works that act as mirages. They are all images that change as they pass through one medium into another, creating distorted, dismantled, reassembled renditions of the originals. Reference images were pulled from my present, personal life, my grandmas collection of family photography spanning back 100 years and found images from the internet. Some pieces use multiple images 'stitched' together resulting in constructed figurative bodies that reference both real, misinformed and manufactured recollections. These works act as mirages of memories that never happened.

"As I try to verbalize and explain my own identity, it’s sometimes difficult to render what is real and what isn’t; who I am vs. who I am not."

*Installation documentation coming soon.

2017 - 2018

A series of drawings on paper mounted to board. This series was completed with graphite pencils and liquid graphite applied with a brush in a more painterly fashion. Drawings were then pushed back with white acrylic ground and drawn back into. This series explores themes of self-identity while being aware that outside perspective weights heavily on self perceptions.

Digital, animated line drawings where then projected onto each piece reinforcing the impression outside manipulations and perceptions play into developing our own understanding of self.

2015 - 2016

A series of drawings built on tensions between love/hate, safe/unsafe. Highly detailed drawings built with intricate cross-hatching develop portrait-type creations of young children. Interrupting these portraits are harsh lines, intruding and mocking the time-consuming, tedious drawings beneath. These marks conceal and destroy the fine details below, creating a sense of unbalance, or unsafe. A hint that something isn't quite right. Similar to violently scribbling over a mistake, or attempting to erase something you no longer believe.