Artist Statement:
My experiences as a multiracial woman form the bedrock of my drawing practice. I’ve learned to navigate between cultural histories and social boundaries that ascribe a false or incomplete identity based on my body’s appearance. The drawings I make allude to an interior world built from colliding cultural narratives that have formed a unique biographical reality.Working from photographs that I take of myself or other women, I draw bodies and their parts to create opportunities for self-discovery and make space for affective exchange. The bodies in my drawings challenge the formal structures that shape how they are perceived and create new ways of knowing.
My experiences as a multiracial woman form the bedrock of my drawing practice. I’ve learned to navigate between cultural histories and social boundaries that ascribe a false or incomplete identity based on my body’s appearance. The drawings I make allude to an interior world built from colliding cultural narratives that have formed a unique biographical reality.Working from photographs that I take of myself or other women, I draw bodies and their parts to create opportunities for self-discovery and make space for affective exchange. The bodies in my drawings challenge the formal structures that shape how they are perceived and create new ways of knowing.