Neo-Shrine
Growing up in the midwest I was nothing but forced to be surrounded by religion. The more I listened to what they spewed at my young age, I realized even then the specific communities I was surrounded by were deeply rooted in an objectification of women. Something that had affected how I viewed my own sexual identity for a long time. If I could make a new shrine to fit my values in any way, this would be it.
Custom Made Plywood Canvas, Oil Paint, Marti Gras Beads, Pipe Cleaners, Thread, Hot Glue
25 x 50 inches
2024
Centipede Girl 3000
During a series of different abstracted portraits of myself this was one I put the most tears into. I took the period of several months making this piece. I only picked up a brush when I truly felt like there was a pit in my stomach I couldn't get rid of. I also had a strange obsession with centipedes at the time, maybe because so many are disgusted by them. This canvas may hold a lot of harbored hatred in it.
Acrylic Paint, Oil Pastels
12 x 16 inches
2024
Off The Rack
It's just the average experience of a teenage girl, nothing out of the ordinary to sexualize yourself at much too early of an age. At least that's what I tell myself. Maybe it was my own crippling body issues from being the biggest girl in the friend group since I could remember. Yet I regret a lot of the situations I put myself into. Just a rack of meat among the others for people to pick as they please.
Watercolor, Cardboard, Hot Glue
6 x 12
2024
On The Other Side of The Headlights
"Deer trapped in headlights' about everyone knows the saying. Yet for a long period of my life I always seemed to be trapped inside of the car, not on the outside of it. I was holding onto something that wasn't there anymore with someone who could smell the weak thoughts in my head. I pray to forget your face and your car.
Acrylic Paint
10 x 12
2025
