Going back and forth between Brooklyn and Chicago, I am constantly reflecting on who I am in each environment and how it shapes me as a person and an artist. My self-portrait chalk pastel drawings represent my life in the present- a diary on everyday existence in Chicago as a student, a young woman, an artist. The sweetness of domesticity and the loneliness of new found independence leak through the paper. My Brooklyn oil paintings are twenty years of walking over the same cracks in the street. They are a love letter to the safety of the familiar, and an attempt to connect myself back home.

Each piece of mine is a study: a study of how physical paint looks, feels, and acts in relationship to the ground and to itself; a study of my memories, emotions, and childhood; a study of nostalgia. Painting is a way for me to incorporate my interest in the intimacy of day to day life into my love of paint and color. I take inspiration from people, places, and things that I encounter in my everyday life through their narrative and emotion. I want my audience to feel like they've been transported either emotionally or physically into the scenery of my images.