Many people take comfort in routine, an unspoken communication of habits and preferences. “ The towels should match the tiles, Christmas lights can’t be up past January.” These forms of communication connect us to our environments, breeding familiarity into these resolutions. Home is not just one of comfort, but one of control. These sets of rules we have made for ourselves is our protection between what we do not know, and what we do not understand. 

My work is an examination of these different perspectives, ideologies and emotions that create rituals throughout our daily lives. Color is a visual tool to demonstrate the tension between black and white thinking and the emotions that contradict their structures. Black heavy ink illustrations with bold figures that draw your attention, represent concrete societal expectations and regulations. While compositions full of bright color, simplified characters, and impasto brushstrokes, builds emotional connection. 

     I create  to disrupt the daily regimen, question what else we have outside the confines of our own comfortable creatures. Welcome the stomach flutters as curiosity, instead of fear; as an opportunity to learn the language of imagination, and to connect with people, places,possibilities outside of my own self proclamations.