Narrative is a central theme in all of my work.

I am interested in creating new personal mythology, pulling from the narratives of the past while being present in the art of cultivating a rich future. The intention is to inspire all people to develop their own rich worlds digging deeper every day to live in a constant state of awe and intention.

This work explores a disconnectedness to cultural roots. The multimedia layers of this installation present the innate desire to imbue all things with potential, a name, an origin story as an instinctive behavior. The work seeks to raise questions and provoke the viewer to contemplate their relationship with ritual, with ignorance as bliss.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

• Friedrich Nietzsche

In the search for my why, or rather the need that compelled me as an artist, I thought back to what inspired awe and joy in my being as a child. I found a tape of me singing and making rhythms with my hands at the age of two and recalled how I would draw life-sized companions on notebook paper taped together to form the figure and carry them around with me, sitting the cutout companion next to me at the dinner table. They had their own stories, they served as a container of meaning and memory.

And so, this was the motivation for me with this installation. Art works serving as containers of memory, each holding its own story. Each figure, a container of consciousness.

I was inspired by the raw visions of world builders like W.C. Rice, Jim Roche, Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder, Minnie Evans and Calvin Black.

Those who tirelessly built up their own mythology as a means of coping with loss, working through trauma and endlessly releasing their creative instincts and lived experience into their works by and for themselves.