Artist Statment

Using vinyl, paper, found objects and paint, my collages, and installations are surrealist orchestrations centering the themes of desire, consumerism, climate change, and transformation through a queer, feminist lens. Growing up in a suburb of Los Angeles, California, I was surrounded by the cultural obsession with affluence and flawless appearances. My work is a homage to the kind of living the middle class aspires to be while being critical of its aspirational origins and impacts; engaging with the normalization of acquisitive wealth, and the willful ignorance of consumption’s impact on the climate. I use remnants from my daily consumption and advertising images as found objects in order to examine the ways images are used to stoke desire for self-improvement and self-indulgence, not only for the objects themselves, but for the identities and lifestyles they represent.