I am an artist, writer, and musician currently based in Brooklyn, NY. My work reckons with nostalgia and
confronts the subjectivity of memory, engaging with the past via personal narrative, abstracted histories, and internal metaphors that drive the work. The same figures, locations, and narratives come to exist across my paintings, poems, and songs; this continued re-exploration across media is critical to my practice.
Intrinsically, the interrogation of memory results in fictionalized narratives and abstracted internal and external environments. Whilst a photograph or image may begin to inform the physicality and composition of the landscape of memory, the ‘truth’ of the scene lies abstracted in the periphery where figures and forms dissolve. Moments of clarity in memory exist alongside abstraction and dissolution, often resulting in emotions of longing towards portions of the past. My work catalogs the omnipresent internal conflict between creating self-serving fictionalized histories and reckoning with the truth in the past to put nostalgia to rest.
Intrinsically, the interrogation of memory results in fictionalized narratives and abstracted internal and external environments. Whilst a photograph or image may begin to inform the physicality and composition of the landscape of memory, the ‘truth’ of the scene lies abstracted in the periphery where figures and forms dissolve. Moments of clarity in memory exist alongside abstraction and dissolution, often resulting in emotions of longing towards portions of the past. My work catalogs the omnipresent internal conflict between creating self-serving fictionalized histories and reckoning with the truth in the past to put nostalgia to rest.
