I make both drawn and sculpted works, bringing the eclectic essence of mixed media to each. My pieces are delicate and intricate with a strong presence of depth and texture achieved through relief layering, transparent materials, and integrating embroidery and fibers. In my work, I contend with my own thoughts and feelings about pain and disability. I embrace the role of unreliable narrator, depicting my experiences with a perspective that realizes guilt, anger, and grief. I often work with biblical and religious themes or imagery, exploring the way that guilt/forgiveness, pain/pleasure, and punishment/purity overlap into my experience. I am especially interested in explorations that map the inside of my body as I imagine it, inviting others to see me in the way I see myself – to occupy my body for just a moment. I want to permit trespass, allowing the viewer to peer into something deeply vulnerable and uncomfortably honest. Through my work, I allow others to see my experience as closely and intimately as is possible, giving them the unique opportunity to understand the parts of the disabled experience that strangers typically have no privilege to. I want to capture my most honest, vulnerable thoughts and feelings — to show the irrational, improper, or incorrect.