My work has two strong reoccurring themes, “Anxiety Disorder & Crohns Disease.” Both of which I have been diagnosed with since I was young. Dealing with such constricting problems throughout my entire life can and has been a frustrating and difficult experience. I use my work to express those feelings. Stability has been the key to helping me through recent years of an ever changing life of going through high school, college and moving from city to city. Therefore, I use alot of pattern in my work, something I can completely control which helps keep my anxiety stabilized and even Crohns under better control. The two installation pieces features are geared more towards taking Crohns disease and turning it into form. I tried to turn the disease into a nonthreatening form, by making the colors bright and warm, or making the structure soft and filled with cotton.
The paintings are themed much more about anxiety, though the same concepts apply as the installation pieces. Each painting has a swirl pattern, which is what I think of when I imagine anxiety. It creates a dizzying, cloudy string of emotions and worry when it occurs, taking over the entire body. Thats why I swirl is a good symbol for the anxiety.
I like to take the curve balls life has thrown me and turn them into something beautiful, but also expressing my emotions.
