Statement from the Artist

My body of work spans genres of travel, nature, life, and profile writing to investigate human connection and memories. My works strive to explore how humans carry and rejoice in memory and trauma.

    My works incorporate lyrical prose and are heavily influenced by those that blur the line between creative non-fiction and poetry. These works include Dime-Store Alchemy: The Work of Joseph Cornell by Charles Simic and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. I am inspired by nature, as I use its laws to try to understand the parallels I see in front of me. In “Field of Lupine” the lupine around me comes to life, as I meditate on why I was able to resolve painful memories in nature. In my braided essay “The Sculptor”, I become you and my father becomes a sculptor who can bend the realities of glass. Building metaphors with childhood memories, I work to understand when a childhood hero became a sculptor who shattered creations that no longer suited him. 

  I aim to document the everyday, the mundane, and the extraordinary to be translated into vibrant lyrical prose. Life is too sharp and lived in corners that are too small to be transcribed in plain word. To be felt and understood by others across boundaries it is essential to bend the rules of words as desire and the parallels of nature command.

  I am currently working on a senior honors thesis and manuscript that brings together experiences of solo traveling across 25 countries and the kind strangers I met.

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