My art is about the people we carry with us.

There is a cumulative intensity to the gesture of marks I carve as I explore tenderness, the temporary, and generational space between people.

Through the subtractive mediums of figurative woodcut and paper cutting, I reveal images in the material over time. Time erodes surfaces, and I imitate that evidence of memory by drawing with a blade.

I use the lens of my upbringing in Alaska to consider place, displacement, diaspora and adaptation. The images and texts I compose are still tied to that isolation and constant yearning for space to gather, which I translate into nonlinear poetry and letterforms.

Honoring the punk legacy of quick and fast graffiti stencils, as well as the traditions of papel picado and Chinese papercut that are common in the Bay Area– I believe in the layers of stories that objects and art contain. My craft is an extension of printmaking: generating multiples of an idea. My work is meant to be lived with, in community spaces and in reciprocity.

Working either monumentally or intimately small, my practice is connected to the weight of the past, human migration and the effervescent exhaustion of everyday love.