My work is about the experience of growing up within a female body and the social experience of interacting with other beings, negotiating internal reality with external expectations. My sculptural practice extrapolates familiar elements of the body, allowing unexpected body parts to take on a life of their own and speak through strange familiarity. This process is based in intuitive hand building, moving between abstract forms and recognizable bodily shapes to create a harmony between form and affective function that allows unexpected body parts to take on a life of their own. In a similar realm, my paintings depict spatial environments that are severed from the laws of landscape. They reconfigure bits of language we know into clusters of logic that shape a circumstantial truth in the muck of themselves. The goal for my paintings is for them to be windows that contain an expressive quality but also invite thought and consideration.