My work explores points of contact, points of disconnect, and the breaking of boundaries between people. My vision is from above, from underneath, from the side—always telescoping. As a visual artist, I function largely as an anthropologist. Inspired by the interplay of identity and space, I use drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and installation to envision ideas about personal and social relationships. Propelled by social questions, I cut things down to their most essential parts—using elemental lines to relay physical and psychological space. Working largely with the figure, I employ gesture, the emotion of color, and sensory detail to choreograph each work.

For the past twelve years, I've interspersed drawing with printmaking and installations. In each of these forms, common elements include line drawings, text, transparency, shadows, and light. My work often incorporates nontraditional materials and processes in order to best render an idea (for example, applying drawings and text from sketchbooks onto bus doors to simultaneously reference the personal and public; drawing in relief with water on opaque plastic to reference subtleties of memory).

My experience in the social sciences, particularly anthropology and ethnography, influences my immersive and research-based approach to projects. My process generally includes interviews with editing and interpreting stories, sketches, photographs, and sounds.

I strive to employ grace and economy of line in order to call out singular details of contemporary life.