My studio work is fueled by a desire to alleviate the contemporary pressures of a culture propelled by competition and production. I use framing and perspectival shifts to process images and structures at a time when—as a result of late capitalism and global crises—the concepts of home and rest are in constant flux. In an attempt to counter feelings of distance, upheaval and anxiety, painting is my quiet resistance: it encourages reflections upon transience and domestic life and offers space to navigate transition. It is an attempt to fix the unfixable—to pin down the fluid concept of the sacred.
Inspired by hermeneutic philosophy and apophatic theology, I find myself swinging between contradictory states of belief. I am chasing steadiness in a liminal place that encompasses a simultaneous coming and going. This experience manifests itself most often in protected spaces, thus I've been led in my work to themes of threshold and sanctuary. My works create a respite and an entryway. They remind us that painting, in its stillness and imaginative capabilities, teaches us to rest where we do not live.