homesick

2020-2022

The narrative interplay between my most private, hidden self and the self that exists in relation to people, places, and things is something I keep coming back to in my work. These intersections show up in the use of repetitive mark-making and patterns--grass, hair, veins, wire, droplets of blood and water--and fragmented lines of text filtered through a hazy lens of nostalgic half-memory of places and events.

The body of work that comprises homesick is deeply personal. Much of it was made in response to various longings, as if by externalizing that which is desired, by putting a name to it and speaking that name aloud, I am bringing it closer to being realized.

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Self portrait as a cat knocking over a glass of water

acrylic on canvas
12x12 in.
2020
Our paths crossed but we did not meet

acrylic on wood
18x24 in.
2022
Homesick

acrylic on salvaged plywood
20x20 in.
2022
You’ll come back to haunt you

acrylic on canvas
16x20 in.
2022

Floating together

acrylic on wood
9x12 in.
2022
It hurts me too

acrylic on wood
9x12 in.
2022
Salt marsh

acrylic on salvaged plywood
18x30 in.
2022
Weeping willow

acrylic on salvaged plywood
9x14 in.
2022
Vessel I

acrylic on salvaged plywood
16x27 in.
2022
I will eat your pain but only if you ask me to

acrylic on wood
9x12 in.
2022
We are all screaming our chorus together please listen

acrylic on canvas
18x24 in.
2022
Folly

acrylic on wood
8x10 in.
2021
I no longer wish to be set apart

acrylic on canvas
16x20 in.
2020
Pardon our dust

acrylic on salvaged plywood
22x22 in.
2022
Show me where it hurts

acrylic on board
8x10 in.
2020
Hide and seek

acrylic on canvas
5x7 in.
2020
Stare directly into the sun

acrylic on board
8x10 in.
2020
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out

acrylic on wood
18x24 in.
2021
Ants

acrylic on salvaged plywood
12x16 in.
2022
I struggle to contain it

acrylic on canvas
30x40 in.
2020
Devotee (detail)

acrylic on salvaged plywood
24x30 in.
2021
Storyteller

acrylic on salvaged plywood
11x14 in.
2022
Passin’ through

acrylic on salvaged plywood
20x20 in.
2022
999

acrylic on salvaged plywood
20x30 in.
2021

I carry you with me still

acrylic on salvaged plywood
18x30 in.
2022
Come what may

acrylic on wood
8x10 in.
2021
I quit my daydreaming

acrylic on salvaged plywood
16x30 in.
2021
We will meet again soon

acrylic on wood
11x14 in.
2022
I will always be with you

acrylic on wood
6x12 in.
2021
Let’s take the long way home this time

acrylic on wood
9x12 in.
2022