A romanticized world in which life is resurrected through the process of decomposition and death is the current focus of my
research.
An adolescence spent attending numerous funerals within my large extended family enabled me to witness ritualistic behaviors
associated with mourning and religious ideals. Observation of others worshiping the body created an early obsession with mortality and preoccupation with death.
Intricate drawings allow repair, dissection, revelation and concealment of imagery, while also exploring the idea of the body as a vessel and examining the inevitable.
The compositions are constructed of allegorical symbols which create a continuous union between life and death, with no beginning and no end. Life infused into something that has ceased to exist.
