My current work is about internal struggles, inspired in a large part from my own struggle with generalized anxiety disorder. It's exhausting trying to constantly change things that can't be changed, and the silent fights I have go unseen. The battle with anxiety isn't the only focus of my work, but these helpless, quiet struggles people endure are.
To illustrate my point, I display emotional tensions in a physical experience. Paintings have hands gripping at body parts, trying to pointlessly change the skin. Sculptures are flexed miniature hands clustered in a pile. In these works, each hand is contorted in its own position to represent a different moment of trouble, with the intent to demonstrate how quickly that pile can become suffocating.
What has me fascinated about this topic is the odd balance between frantic tension and overwhelming defeat that people experience during mental struggles. I prefer to work small because I believe there is an intimacy with objects that can fit in your hand. My work is made to be approachable, with the aim for people to find relief in having their troubles physically represented.