As an artist and psychology student, I try to explore the relationship between the two in my work which includes paintings, prints, and installations. In doing so, I primarily explore my moods and relationships, creating work that reflects on my experiences through abstraction and accumulation. Much of my work includes movement and fluidity in the form of line work that reflects my focus on change and adjusting cognitive rigidities. The repetition and accumulation seen in my work also reflects this need for routine and consistency in the midst of change in my own life, and how my art practice has played an important role in this routine. I hope that viewers can reflect on their own routines of rest and care while experiencing my work, and how these have changed in their own lives over time as they have in mine.
In my latest collection of paintings, “unreliable narrations,” I used watercolor pencil and gouache on wood panels to create abstract accounts of my mood journal. Each painting captures the primary moods and experiences of a particular day in the past six months, as noted under each one. This process began as a series of smaller collages made using colored pencil and Color-aid paper that are displayed with the collection. As a related installation, viewers are invited and encouraged to make their own collage to take with them during this exhibition. I hope this not only allows viewers to participate physically in the process, but also allows them to continue to reflect on their own experiences outside of the exhibition.
As someone with difficulty being vulnerable, my collection of abstract paintings provide a space in which I can sit with my emotions, celebrate and mourn relationships I hold dear, and contemplate these changes in my life while maintaining a certain level of anonymity. I also hope that the playful, organic forms and vibrant colors allow for a celebration of reflection and change to come through.
