Artist Statement

My work explores themes of anemoia*, memory, nostalgia, utopian ideals, and women's experiences. I'm often drawn to imagining what my life would look like if I had been born at a different time, tempered by an awareness that the historic realities of those eras were far less idyllic. Working with a variety of materials, from colored pencils to painting, printmaking, and occasionally sculpture, my visual language conveys a whimsical overtone through bright colors, abundant circular forms, and bulbous, organic shapes. My two-dimensional works include purposefully ambiguous backgrounds, lending to a notion of anywhere and anywhen.

*Anemoia is a contemporary word coined by author John Koenig in his publication The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows meaning: “nostalgia for a time you've never known.”

Koenig, J. (2021). The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.