Art disrupts the monotone of every day culture and schedule. There is potential for questioning of the everyday, the culture of desires and wants, the society of the spectacle, and the ability to enact fundamental change and upheaval in these areas. I am driven by an over-arching desire for a pragmatic and empathetic social consciousness and embrace the importance of politicized desire to enact change within stale frameworks of complacency and apathy. Sociopolitical investigations into the history and significance of colonialism, urbanism, and activism fuel an interdisciplinary practice with the goal of opening a dialogue on empowering marginalized people. I explore power and power relationships, including notions of community, solidarity, anarchy, anxiety, transgression, and displacement. These explorations inhabit various media and find common aesthetic ground in the use of naturalistic representation, text, and the fracturing of space and form.

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