I am a queer, neurodivergent artist. Drawing plays a prominent role in my practice. Hyperfocused, I lose myself in responding to the multiple stimuli of everyday life and experience. This is practice in which I attempt to untangle and better understand my behavior, thought processes, and how my neurodiversity affects my life in ways that are sometimes joyful and sometimes difficult. This hyperfocused way of working can be offset by the constant distractions and interruptions of my body and brain, including its physiological and rhythmic patterns such as menstruation. These often cause me to have to move and work back and forth between various processes and media. Rather than seeing this as a negative, I open myself to using it as a prompt to search for experimental and alternative ways of working, like using my body as medium for printing when I feel I need to be more directly and physically engaged in the process of creation.
I also make use of my sensory 'stimming' activities, incorporating these into my working process. The intensely detailed results can then be worked over and re-used as dense layers of visual information in my collages and drawings. This all results in work that can seem, at first glance, overwhelmingly complex, but is in fact the result of carefully considered composition which rewards sustained attention on the part of the viewer. My work varies in scale. Sometimes individual works come to be combined into larger composite works. Sometimes elements of one work are salvaged as elements in a new one. Through these same processes originally two-dimensional works often come to be three-dimensional pieces, without losing the trace of their original form.
