About the Artist

I am a Detroit-based artist interested in exploring painting methods and printing processes to seek out and create specific mental spaces. I experiment with gestural, bodily, expressionistic painting styles as well as intuitive printing techniques. I often combine painting and print media to create immersive or environmental spaces within my work.
Embedded in the process of intuitive mark making, there is a recognizable mental space for me that ensure happiness and emotional well-being as well as intellectually stimulating me. It comes as a form of meditation. I focus on the layered, intricate detail that naturally occurs in this type of action-based work. This mental space comes without effort when I am surrounded by friends and family and it can be fabricated through strict mediation. I do not have the level of discipline necessary to achieve mediation on my own at this point in my life. My path to mediation is through my practice and my work. As I enter this calm, focused mental space through my process, I am enabled to contemplate large, abstract concepts of love, happiness, compassion, peace, and oneness as humans.
I create images that can remind me of places or things in my life that bring me to meditate on love as well as creating the same capacity for elevated thought through the processes itself. I make work to teach myself love and truth and to learn how to share it and live my life by it. Have love, give love, be love.