Though art has always been a part of my life, abstract art is a fairly recent addition. In 2015, I was diagnosed with cancer, and, as my treatment progressed, words increasingly failed to describe the physical and emotional trauma that marked my everyday life. Developing a visual language to describe my experience was a powerful coping mechanism and continues to be so as I navigate my life post-cancer.
My work is rooted in the construction of spaces and the exploration of how those spaces can be interrupted by other forces. Echoes of natural shapes combine with simple patterns to create abstract landscapes--composed forms that can be contemplated with little judgement or expectation. This visual language provides a continued sense of self-awareness, framed against developed pathways and their interrupting elements that ultimately become part of the whole.