My art begins with what I call an ‘act of regurgitation’, drawing from my individual human experience by using subjects such as nostalgia, gender, sexuality, near death experiences, and traumatic events. I recall upon these powerful experiences through complicated visual stimuli: sight, smell, sound- and I use it to both intrigue and overwhelm. A life event is ultimately neither a positive nor a negative thing, but it is a creature with the capability to engulf.

I let the concept possess me to work in whatever medium will speak best for it, but usually it manifests into polyurethane foam as a basis to create the engulfing presence that gives physicality to something otherwise non-material. These develop mostly as large-scale assemblage sculptures but can shift into something that appears otherworldly of a single description. I then embellish the mass I have created with glitter, pom poms, beads, crystals, and other ingredients in an explosion of color and light that radiates the vitality and perseverance of the human condition.

In my process, I hope to expel my powerful experiences into something that is a person and a place, removed from myself. The finished piece should bring alarm, but perhaps an odd sense of comfort to those who could be deemed unconventional, weird, and outcast to a broad expanse of the human population.