Artist Statement
At the core of my practice is an omnipresent character, The Watcher. This anthropomorphic figure acts as both witness and provocateur, embodying the parts of myself that observe, endure, and resist the internalization and externalization of the male gaze. Through the Watcher, I translate private psychological experiences surrounding femininity and societal expectations of women into visual form, embracing the feminine grotesque as a site of both vulnerability and defiance.
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Text is central to my process, functioning as language, image, and object. Words repeat, fragment, and distort, disrupting appropriated imagery and the visual conventions of the male gaze. These interventions expose and subvert the gendered ideologies embedded within them.
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Grounded in clay’s tactile and historically feminine associations, my practice merges personal expression with critical resistance. Drawing from Pop and Funk art, I use humor, excess, and exaggeration to confront trauma, mental health, and societal expectations of women, celebrating the unruly and the abject as forms of power.


