Artist Statement

My work explores the relationship between my experience in everyday life and “Intersectionality” in the U.S.. Through various mediums and community engagement my interpretations aim to take on political as well as social dimensions, in hope to become a force of social change. With that in mind, it is not important for my work to have an emphasis on drawing/painting. They are used as tools to get my ideas across, as well as other times where I use video, performance and printmaking.

Currently in my work, I am exploring Intersectionality through portraiture. “Intersectional"  by the term, accompanies the ways that not only gender, but also race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, language, class, and sexuality extend to inform an individual's identity and their affair with society. By navigating these ideas through drawing/painting, I pattern the concept of documenting people who aren't family but are related so much as to communicate a familial bond. Being members of a growing acceptance towards a more personalized and identifiable world. Naturally, our instinct to judge and perceive character can yield our minds from peering deeper into the social constructs people have generated. How we recognize those said constructs today will challenge everything we thought to know about the social spectrum of our society. The current world operates within the song of the once voiceless mass now roaring with unapologetic confidence. These individuals are united through what should always have been rightfully theirs. A choice. A choice to proclaim who they are, not be told.