“I make art for people who avoid talking about race so they can open up and have honest, productive conversations.”

Around 2020, my practice underwent a significant shift, from searching for meaning to investigating it. This change was profoundly shaped by the murder of George Floyd, an event that deeply affected me, forcing me to confront my own relationship to race, injustice, and silence. Since that time, my work has increasingly focused on themes of social justice, racial inequality, and the historical systems of oppression embedded in American culture. I believe that America is trapped in a cycle of perpetual inequity, and my work seeks to slow down, examine, and expose the structures that sustain it. I use Drawing as a tool for peeling back layers of anxiety surrounding race, allowing me to confront my own inability to address inequality while exploring where honest and truthful  conversations might lead us.