artist statement

Drawing helps me express and record my emotional perspective on a moment, event, or relationship, at the time of drawing. That is why the way I draw something is never the exact same moment to moment. The imperfections in my work are the expressions of emotions triggered by non-visual sensory information that is then expressed visually. Because of this, when trying to draw in a “life-like” style, I often become frustrated that these visual expressions of other sensory information don’t make physical, visual sense. This is either because I have not accepted the emotions/feelings/sensations expressed in the drawing, or I am not yet comfortable recording and sharing those feelings. Sometimes this discomfort is also because, as my perspective shifts moment to moment, I feel the need to adjust the drawing with me. Drawing forces me to face the imperfect feelings that I try to avoid, it makes me reckon with them, helps me accept them, helps me see them as beautiful or at least worth feeling and recording.

education

BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (2012-2017)

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