I am interested in painting as looking and as touch, and as a way to show uncertainty and equivocation. I want my paintings to be whole but unfinished, to stay open as if they might continue to change and shift, to slip at the edges. Where does a figure end and the background begin? For me, this ambiguity relates to memory, the transition from childhood to adulthood, sexuality, and constructions of femininity and masculinity. My recent motifs include decoration, clothing, and the body. I think on how my love of stereotypically feminine ornament is both conventional and conflicted, traditional and queer. How the body feels present in a figure-less frame. How painting can mimic the flatness of cloth, feel like the roundness of form, or exist somewhere in between. To be both presence and absence, object and space.



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