Most of the work on display here is about stress on the body. The right kind of stress is training, leading to a fit body. Too much stress or force is expressed as abuse or trauma. This continuum is elastic, such that each new art project is a position for the body against contemporary institutions. As projects in the art studio evolve like thoughts, they take on meaning as containers for self-awareness. Meditation and technology are skills and tools to exit or change the shape of the container.

Much of the work is born out of personal experiences with domesticity, mental health, meditation, and a seeking of less distracting, less demanding environments. Newer pieces are informed by earlier work only insofar as all objects in the studio are subject to the possibility of being absorbed into other objects in the studio. By reacting to current events and themes in culture with these aesthetic values in mind, I am attempting to take a position against modernism as it relates, institutionally, to people. I aim to make objects that are seductive and simultaneously grotesque enough to elicit a somatic aesthetic experience.

I hope to be creative in ways that help people escape attachment to expectations or outcomes for their desires, and I intend to collapse the false dichotomy between seduction and repulsion in a way that makes people freer from suffering than they were before seeing my work.