What kind of World (2024)

Since becoming a mother, my work has become an indirect collaboration with children. I work alongside them, on our own creations, sharing our materials. I come back after bedtime while my house sleeps, adding layers to each piece. Collage, assemblage, and readymade materials lend themselves to quick decision making and feel appropriate in this season of short, colorful studio bursts. Through these materials I speak to the many contradictions of parenthood - chaos, spontaneity, controlled grids and structured spacing. Delicate florals evoke possibility and pause. A flower in every form. Bold color strikes confidence while thin paper edges, artificial grass, and windows frames feel vulnerable, distanced. Each piece speaks to both childhoods long gone and the ones currently unfolding. What kind of world are we leaving them? What kind of world are we creating for them?