Artist Statement, 2025

My artistic practice probes the experience of living with chronic illness in our contemporary moment, one ruled by a culture of compulsory wellness and a socio-economic structure that simultaneously disables us and disallows us the care we need. I am interested in using art to deconstruct the frameworks around what it means to be healthy or sick, how we treat each other when in one state or the other, and how “wellness” is a seductive mirage propped up by media and culture. I am equally interested in the ways in which illness can be generative: how it can lead to meaningful change, self-knowledge, and a commitment to interdependence.

Much of my work uses found materials, often in the form of images and text. I am curious about adopting what already exists in the world—the soup of stuff that lives in the media, on the internet, in our homes, and in doctors’ offices—to engage in mapping an aesthetics of health.

I hope that together, these artworks act as a call for care. For a more nuanced understanding of what it means to live in unruly bodies in proximity to each other. For less reductive images of health and illness. And for a more generous orientation toward embodied experience that transcends our individualist culture and instead engages in mutual support and love.