Artist Statement

I say that my love letters to the world are addressed to the world as body, concept, and stranger. Applying this to my work in general, I hope it is addressing that individual before me as a flesh-and-blood body on a more personal individual level, that the work is in conversation with the world more conceptually, and that it leaves space for the unknown, that stranger we will never know on the other side (whether this is a mysterious reader, the murky unplumbed depths of oneself, or an entity that exists along the lines of negative capability).

In many ways, my work is utopic and envisions the beautiful possibilities of what could be. I hope that any utopic visions and projects of love I share with the world have an impact on other readers, writers, and artists in terms of the possibilities they can see in theory on the page and in reality, creating never-ending circles of literary and artistic utopia at the very least.

I Thought I'd Have Turned Into a Bird by Now