Some of my most recent work explores the reality of human interconnectedness - that pure independence was always a lie, that we are all pulling on and being pulled on by one another, and it isn’t nefarious.

Our trajectories are each being altered as they intertwine, and each new twist allows for a new direction.

Beginning the process by creating soft sculptures made from my own favorite clothing items, I then paint the image of these sculptures onto canvas, to, in a way, canonize these paradoxes. I use it to work through the required pulling we all do with one another, to put these things on the walls - to ordain them complete in their ambiguous entanglement.

In, “We, the independent,” I engage the different types of clothes as metaphors for parts within the self: the pair of jeans as it pulls on the white collared shirt, as it then pulls against the magenta silk skirt. All of these roles we occupy as pieces of us that pull against and influence one another.