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As an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation, my works examine sensory processing, sensory perception, and materiality. Through the manipulation of materials and the optical distortion of space, I construct imagined, alternate realities that reflect my experience of the world. As a neurodivergent learner whose informational perceptions were continually doubted and dismissed in school, I am interested in exploring the subjectivity of “knowing” through sensory perception. Moments of sensory disorder can be unsettling, but the brain is capable of filling in gaps and creating new connections. A faulty sensory perception can dismantle linear thinking and cause a re-examination of the world. My work offers opportunities to visualize these cognitive possibilities and alternate ways of seeing.

In my sculpture and installations, I exploit the relationship between senses (gathering information) and perceptions (interpreting information) in what I call, spatial puzzles. I combine and overlap 2-D and 3-D planes to simultaneously deepen and flatten space and I alternate foreground and background to oscillate between visual fields. Using complicated 2-D architectural drawings and diagrams as a prompt, I build 3-D sculptures out of simple materials like yarn, tape, and wire. My imagined architectures are often devoid of visual gravity and operate as fantastical, floating forms. My installations investigate the same spatial quandaries by both integrating and responding to the site-specific, physical place. I incorporate sculptural elements out of wood, paper, foam, and paint to existing corners, windows, or outlets creating optical distortions of the space. When I create work that reinterprets a diagram or reshapes a room in my visual language, I validate my visual thinking.

As a sensory processor, materiality largely influences my practice and gives me access to visceral communication beyond verbal articulation or conscious reasoning. I begin a project with general scale and form parameters, but the material dictates the outcome. I am attracted to the bright, flat colors of carpet foam and its illusion of looking like expensive marble. I wrap fluorescent, orange yarn around a tree branch and extend it to a different picture plane like a drawn line. I paint cardboard, shape wire, build wooden cubes, and drape felt. I think with my hands.

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Recent works have been inspired by the 2021 sci-fi novel, Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman. In this dystopian, near-future narrative a sinister corporation develops a substitute for drinking water called “WAT-R” which has devastating effects on its consumers. My “Liquid Amnesia” series explores what this mutant water would look and feel like, imagined through my sensory interpretations and material experiments.

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My work challenges the notion that there is one sole way to perceive, think, or comprehend.