ARTIST STATEMENT.

My art is about the people we carry with us. 

There is a cumulative intensity to the gesture of marks I carve as I explore tenderness, the temporary, and generational space between people. Through the subtractive medium of paper cutting, I reveal figures and letterforms in the material over time. Time erodes surfaces, and I imitate that evidence of memory by drawing with a blade.

My work is a collection of non-linear poetry and portraiture honoring unseen emotional labor. I use the lens of my upbringing as a jew in rural Alaska to consider place and diaspora.

I consider my practice an extension of printmaking: generating multiples of an idea. I often laminate my papercut stencils to place in bodies of water, having the waves read my work as non-traditional books. I believe in the layers of stories that weathered objects and art contain. My work is meant to be lived with, in community spaces and in reciprocity.