I investigate moments of shift and change in the process of becoming human. Initially, I focused on our fierce, adolescent embrace of a first worldview as we come of age. Post-adolescence, we are asked to edit that unsustainably idealistic initial draft. Each rewrite demands we let go of the tenets of one worldview while not firmly grasping those of the next.

In changing our minds about how we view the world, we inhabit a slippery, in-between place. Each time we choose to do this, we undergo another coming of age.

My figurative work explores how we embody this uncertain space of changing a mindset, depicting people I know in the process of shift. Working collaborating with each sitter is a part of my process and I often appropriate known gestures from art history, using the extant stories found in art as a foundational building block in my work.