Artist Statement

My practice centers on contemporary collage as a site for material and conceptual transformation. I construct mixed media works using watercolor, drawing, fabric, ephemera, and found materials collected from daily life and solo travels, including printed matter and other discarded fragments. These elements are layered and reassembled into densely worked surfaces that balance structure and disruption.

Writing functions as an embedded component of the work. Drawing from journal entries, text is incorporated into each collage and selectively obscured, operating between legibility and abstraction. Pages from past journals are interwoven with newly written text. Rather than relying solely on adhesive, I use a sewing machine to bind elements together, informed by my background as a seamstress. 

At its core, my work is driven by cycles of creation, destruction, and reconstruction. Through layering, concealment, and reassembly, memory and lived experience are fractured and reformed.