I use figurative painting and sculpture while leaning on the aesthetics of melancholy. I am inspired by the Romantic re-elaboration of one’s surroundings in search of beauty and the Sublime.

I confront moments of loss, using concepts of memory and time to convey a profound sense of incompleteness. In my latest project, titled Class of '88, I draw a parallel between my mother’s time at Mills College and my own experience as a student there decades later, after the college was acquired by Northeastern University.

I explore the contrast between my mother’s and my experience at Mills: unlike her, I am absent from yearbooks, and I will not graduate with the same degree - destined to be forgotten. Through this work, I seek an understanding — of myself and the loss endured, of my mother and of the college, analyzing the ways in which I carry these losses.

I work across various mediums, including painting, ceramics, and printmaking. This work draws from old yearbooks found in the library, the concept of obsolete diplomas, and a language of perpetual nostalgia that looks back at the past through the present. The diploma my mother once carried at graduation is re-presented in ceramic form before the painting, holding what could have been my diploma. An object now an institution-less symbol, a mere piece of paper.