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.