STATEMENT

 

My recent body of work emerged after moving from my hometown of Sarasota, Florida to New York City, where distance allowed me to see my upbringing with a new perspective. What once felt stable and familiar now appears fragile, as if the social and emotional foundations I grew up with are beginning to crack. These paintings explore girlhood, suburban life, and the uneasy transition into adulthood while questioning how identity is formed within a culture that can feel unstable, performative, and politically uncertain. Using both experimental processes and representational imagery, I investigate memory, place, femininity, nostalgia, and disillusionment, exploring how the same emotional reality can be expressed through different material and visual languages.