Art has always had a meditative effect on me—attempting to reconstruct the physical world and its properties forces me to stay in the present moment.
My body of work consists of drawings, paintings, and animations. Art has always had a meditative effect on me—attempting to reconstruct the physical world and its properties forces me to stay in the present moment. This struggle between the mental plane and the physical plane is one of my driving motivations to make art.
During my time as an art major I feel that my work went through several transitions that greatly impacted me as an artist. Before I began studying art at an academic level I had mainly worked in pencil, but this changed once I discovered charcoal in my first drawing class in college. Working with the properties of charcoal, more specifically vine charcoal, and through the instruction of the incredible faculty at University of New Hampshire, I was encouraged to loosen my technique through larger strokes and gestural drawings. As my work became looser and the separation between objects and their surroundings became more delicate and obscured, I was able to find a more emotive style in my drawings that I had not achieved beforehand. I began using this looser approach with painting and animation which further helped me establish a style that I felt comfortable with. Later during my time at UNH, I reached a point where I felt that I wanted to rediscover and reestablish structure within this gestural abstraction that I had created. Searching for this order within the chaos was suddenly a new inspiration for me. This journey through deconstruction and reconstruction entirely changed my way of approaching the canvas—and I also believe that it best describes the process that I experience while forming my drawings and paintings.
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