homesick

2020-2022

The narrative interplay between my most private, hidden self and the self that exists in relation to the world 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
12 x 12 in
2020
Our paths crossed but we did not meet
acrylic on wood
18 x 24 in
2022
Homesick
acrylic on salvaged plywood
20 x 20 in
2022
You’ll come back to haunt you
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20 in
2022

Floating together
acrylic on wood
9 x 12 in
2022
It hurts me too
acrylic on wood
9 x 12 in
2022
Salt marsh
acrylic on salvaged plywood
18 x 30 in
2022
Weeping
acrylic on salvaged plywood
9 x 14 in
2022
Vessel I
acrylic on salvaged plywood
16 x 27 in
2022
I will eat your pain but only if you ask me to
acrylic on wood
9 x 12 in
2022
We are all screaming our chorus together please listen
acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 in
2022
Folly
acrylic on wood
8 x 10 in
2021
I no longer wish to be set apart
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20 in
2020
Pardon our dust
acrylic on salvaged plywood
22 x 22 in
2022
Show me where it hurts
acrylic on board
8 x 10 in
2020
Hide and seek
acrylic on canvas
5 x 7 in
2020
Stare directly into the sun
acrylic on board
8 x 10 in
2020
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
acrylic on wood
18 x 24 in
2021
Ants
acrylic on salvaged plywood
12 x 16 in
2022
I struggle to contain it
acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 in
2020
Devotee (detail)
acrylic on salvaged plywood
24 x 30 in
2021
Storyteller
acrylic on salvaged plywood
11 x 14 in
2022
Passin’ through
acrylic on salvaged plywood
20 x 20 in
2022
999
acrylic on salvaged plywood
20 x 30 in
2021

I carry you with me still
acrylic on salvaged plywood
18 x 30 in
2022
Come what may
acrylic on wood
8 x 10 in
2021
I quit my daydreaming
acrylic on salvaged plywood
16 x 30 in
2021
We will meet again soon
acrylic on wood
11 x 14 in
2022
I will always be with you
acrylic on wood
6 x 12 in
2021
Let’s take the long way home this time
acrylic on wood
9 x 12 in
2022