My work focuses on combining paintings depicting collaged figurative and symbolic visuals with found materials and time-based media via music compositions and videos into larger installations in order to create a physical space of the “in-between” in order to discuss the more ephemeral emotional experiences of change and loss. In creating these spaces, memories of these experiences can be made physical, and given a home, if only for a brief moment.

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 I primarily utilize gouache for painting as it can achieve a special hazy, dream-like quality, as well as a level of transparency that maintains a certain vibrancy in color that more effectively allows for a depiction of the subject matter. The collected objects for the larger installations are chosen with the intent of evoking a certain level of antiquity or wear, or an otherwise overall softness and sense of comfort when selecting fiber elements in particular. 

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The use of music in my work above all else is the most important aspect to it, second only to the paintings themselves. I utilize a few digital audio workstations alongside a midi keyboard with the incorporation of many found and recorded field samples, often of intimate and candid moments of voice messages or conversation. Through a selection of synth key and bell VSTS to be a main melodic voice, I focus on building atmosphere through layering multiple pads, and then affecting this base with layers of reverb and pedal effects. To introduce a sense of momentum and contrast to the otherwise hazy and delicate sonic environment, I utilize multiple drum racks to create breaks and stuttering movement within a composition. 

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With these elements, I work within my musical compositions to create a contrasting sense of memory and comfort set against interruption, movement, or unease. Emotional engagement from a viewer is my ultimate goal when it comes to creating my work, and in combining my 2D and audio work together, I think of the rest of the installation as a set for this sort of emotional theatre, where a viewer can then access the ephemeral in a way they can finally touch.