My figurative paintings and drawings embrace expansive notions of identity via representations of embodied experiences. By emphasizing the overlap of figures and objects, my work speculates on how we shape one another and the places we inhabit over time. Using transparent films of paint, I layer the shapes of everyday objects within figures, entangling them with the cups they hold, the chairs they sit in, the people they listen to as they lay in bed. By building up my surfaces with layers of acrylic paint, the paintings become textured with previous marks like embedded memories. I respond to these marks as I layer oil paint, depicting people staining into one another as they kiss or argue, connect or withhold. My work destabilizes the Self/Other binary, envisioning identity built from accumulations of both positions.
