The way I understand the world most clearly is by using my work as a process of rumination. As a result, my artwork is documentation. It becomes a record of my interpretation and multifaceted experiences distilled into imagery. As an autistic person, this mode is an essential component of processing the world around me. My attention as an observer is focused on the dichotomy of belonging and isolation, where community exists, and where I fit in the fields between.
In my role as an educator, I facilitate a similar range of exploration and careful observation. I suggest paths into individual curiosity and inquiry and encourage the expansion of perspectives through endless questions and openness to infinite responses. I believe in art as a personal and universal language, and attempt to guide others to perceive and express through the lens of their unique selves by visual means. I am particularly interested in removing canonized and implicitly perceived social limits that insist on subjective binaries of correctness, beauty, and value.