Artist Statement

In my work I explore how spaces of liminality occur throughout life: such as moving from one place to another, the transition between childhood into adulthood, or through the loss of loved ones. These in-betweens each carry their own memories for me to traverse. Since I can neither move forward nor back, I’m left roaming through memories in order to get close enough to the past that I can ignore the future. Here is where my body rests, my mind freezes, and I stop progressing entirely. It is in this stasis that rumination occurs.  

My work exists in a site where the familiar and unknown meet. Liminality is encountered in a variety of means, all existing in the realms of an emotional, physical, or metaphorical space. Memory and reality are lost here; their original context being muddled to the point of becoming an unknown. In these instances, liminality becomes a period of one unwilling to move forward, but too far gone to go back. These transitional spaces take hold and warp the reality of existence, leaving one to interpret the fabricated state they occupy. One may refuse to move on from such an existence, entering a state of limbo disconnected from the rest of their life.

I make installations that shift one’s perceived reality to an unearthly tone and transport them to a different state of being from their present self. Through manipulation of light and shadow I create realms for an individual to get lost in and invite viewers to pass into an in-between of my own design. Cardboard sculptures, shadow puppetry, and environments that reference fractured stories with an overarching theme rooted in the threshold of intermediacy exist for my audience to explore.