Memories Series 2024

My work is a reflection of labor, space, and memory rooted in the environments I have inhabited and the materials I have encountered. I combine and transform found materials to reconstruct the surface texture. I have worked for Amazon, in the military, in a nail salon - all with very distinct types of physical labor and environments. My practice focuses on the intimate exploration of work - specifically, the repetitive and intensive process that goes unseen. I shred my old artworks, repurposing them into new pieces, allowing past narratives to be woven into the present through deconstruction and transformation. Through this approach, I embody the act of labor itself, by breaking down materials, reassembling, and translating materials into a
visual language. This involved process, I create compositions that compel the viewer to stop and consider. The completed works may chips off challenge the perceptions of value, temporary, and routine, and encourages a deeper reflection of unseen and overlooked aspects of labor.