Artist Statement
Engaging in the practices of drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and photography, my intent is to examine psychological conflation and the evolving relationships between embodiment, disorder, digital influence, and the absurd. As our climate conditions detrimentally mutate, whether social, environmental, political or economic, we have reached a point of existence in a void between a rich past with distinct identities and a volatile future guaranteed to inherit. Raised amid the boom of the world wide web, particularly social media, the subliminal shifts in societal functions abstracted by our integration with technology has remained at the forefront of my worldview. Drawing from feminist and postcolonial theory, contemporary posthumanism applies these conceptual frameworks to our cybernetic fusion under late-stage capitalism and the Anthropocene. Prior to studying the theory, I developed an analogous perspective alongside a radical fluctuation between nihilistic and absurdist sentiment since my preadolescence. All factors considered, essentially, the foundation of my art is to deconstruct the intersections of mental disorder and contemporary hazards of the human experience.