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STATEMENT OF WORK
I grew up in Portland, Oregon raised around my mother’s side of the family. We are descendants of the Klamath, Modoc and Cherokee tribes. As a child I always had aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents nearby.
I make paintings that utilize a personal archive of images to engage with slippage of memory and image construction as a material process. I combine collage, paint and a sculptural mixed media to examine family histories and representation through an autoethnographic framework. Images are often fragmented and embedded in the work. I am interested in how a painting can contain history with or without legibility.
Many of my paintings begin with a single photograph as it’s source. Through layered repetition and distortion the works take on a new visual experience. Tears reveal hidden moments and create new gestures on their own, weaving throughout and collapsing the space. I explore mutations of narrative, representation, access, authorship, and the abstractions that occur through translation.