Artist's Statement

I am a bio artist who works with living, nonliving, and otherwise unspecified collaborators to explore the human condition and the natureculture in which I exist. I find myself at the alchemical crossroads between art and science and transmute artworks out of research and biology. My art is informed by my experiences as an animal care-giver and as a person with mental illness living at the tail end of the Anthropocene. I find myself more successful in communication with the nonhuman-other than I am with people around me. When I have difficult and complex emotions that I can’t process or put into words, I project it onto my multimedia based artistic practice. 

 My artistic practice is informed by research and asking questions. I don’t always find answers to the questions I set out to investigate, but I leave a trail of information and creativity in its wake. Whether the viewers of my works know it or not, I am telling them a tale of biology, history, and lived personal experience through the works I produce. The final products I present to an audience are an artifact of my exploration into unknown worlds and territories.