I am an interdisciplinary visual artist who pursues the nuances of life through various mediums. Though primarily following my keen interest in metal sculpture, this does not stop me from allowing myself to experience new materials and experiment with methods such as wood working, sewing, oil painting, printmaking, and photography. I hold a primary focus on traditionally analogue forms of creation due to the tangible hands-on aspect of the process which I believe is a fundamental part of what makes my art hold its own in an otherwise digitally dominated artistic world. 

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I hope to enable the viewer to feel a sense of peacefulness yet still eliciting the curious desire to physically reach out and touch as they explore the colors and textures each piece exhibits. Many of my works nudge the viewer into a somewhat uncomfortable space as well by holding a mild sense of unease through the presence of the uncanny, asymmetric, and irregular physical movement. The goal of these additions being that the viewer questions the dichotomies within their own life. 

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I do not wish to sugar coat the beauty of life by fluffing up the mundane, but by showing its truth by illuminating the very real sense of loss, and common misconceptions surrounding it, which we encounter from day to day. All of my pieces have meaning regarding the dynamic flow of the overwhelming concept of what we call life, whether it be through the vine-like nature in my organic metalwork, representations of lost animals and loved ones, or even the visual embodiment of what life, loss, and the fear of failure mean to me. 

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I find massive inspiration in the antiquity of my familial tradition of foxhunting, as well as my own life experiences from growing up on a horse farm in the lush countryside of Unionville, Pennsylvania, where I have faced the sheer brutality of life and the concept of death from a very young age. Tragically losing a horse, dog, or pet of any kind, either through natural causes or traumatic accident, as well as several close loved ones has taught me to value the ebb and flow of what it means to live, never taking any of it for granted. I strive to elicit the embrace of the harsh realities of life, as well as the failures that can seemingly come hand in hand with them, and to never shy away from the potential of beauty within those realities.

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