I am a visual artist working in traditional media such as oil paint, graphite, pastels, watercolor, India ink, and acrylic. I paint how it feels to inhabit my body. I consider art-making a necessary tool of adaptability, which helps me survive in the world as a disabled person. The practice of conceptualizing and then creating something that was once not there supports the production of new neural connections. These new neural connections help me repair my relationship with my body, which has previously internalized to hate itself from the rest of the world. It also supports me in conceiving futures in which all people have not only everything they need to survive but also thrive.

My works depict contorted, distorted, abstracted, and repeated portrayals of bodies, often my own. The bodies are rendered fragmented, fractured, ghost-like, and unfinished, or are reduced to lumpy flesh-like blobs of paint. Themes relating to survival, bodily catastrophe, cautious optimism, and the tension between control and surrender play out in my work through the use of layered compositions of bodily masses, highly saturated color palettes, and exaggerated scale. The act of incorporating joy and pleasure into these images through the use of vibrant color and playful texture is a necessary act in being able to imagine a future in which disabled people have everything they need to flourish. I practice defying internalized narratives about disability by incorporating forms that resist perceiving injury, deformity, or illness as unfavorable but rather celebrate and beautify the attributes that society generally regards as monstrous.