artist statement.

My work is a process of personal evolution formed by the choices and struggles that are experienced in life. Each piece is a series of layers; collage, paint and pen. The rules, intentionally, are as inconsistent and variable as a personality. I am interested in how the first layer narrating one of my experiences, can evolve by overlapping metaphors of flight and travel, structures organic and man-made. I digest the sometimes irrational and nebulous nature of my emotions, to escape from the pressures of society. As a result the painting becomes an organism, symbolic of my spirit.

Universally, people are in search of a sense of freedom and escape from their struggles. My paintings search for an escape from and an explanation of the reoccurring theme of women's struggle to find acceptance in a society that demands perfection. When first described, young women were found to be limiting themselves to dangerously low levels of sustenance in order to achieve a kind of spiritual purity. My process tackles this conversation about socially imposed roles and ideals for women and their search for spiritual purity.