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ARTIST STATEMENT

I make art that is spooky, sexy, and very silly. My work would be right at home on the walls of the Addams family. I use lurid colors and cartoonish figures to depict my dark subject matter with a little levity. My love of the macabre stems from my unusual upbringing with my gentle mother who lives with schizophrenia. We weren’t like most families but we had a lot of love. My mom has often been unfairly stigmatized because of her illness, so I’ve always found comfort in stories that depict sympathetic monsters, like in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or in the animated film Shrek (2001). I use the visual arts to explore repressed emotional states around typically taboo topics like mental illness and sexual desire. I seek to make explicit that which is often hidden and shamed from sight.