Artist Statement

I make experimental, feminist video art. Filming on VHS, while performing before the camera, I invent worlds that are ethereal, sensual and ritualistic. I combine video and performance to tell stories using symbols and allegory. 

My visual language is constructed from carefully studied symbols like butterflies, fruit, flowers, eggs and personal objects, which experience a metamorphosis. 

Investigating the complexity and power of femininity through the female gaze, I urge the viewer to consider alternate realities from the current cultural paradigm and to locate peace within a technologically inundated and capitalistic/patriarchal culture.

Themes in my work involve healing from trauma, concepts of god, the need to return to nature, uncovering the secrets of age and love. Overarching artistic goals are to connect to the viewer through personal vulnerability, aid in healing and to remind the viewer of their artistic potential.

Influenced by Maya Deren, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, the Riot Grrrl music movement and Czechoslovak New Wave cinema, I found my personal aesthetic through shooting on a VHS camera in my bedroom alone. I explore performance as a medium when a live audience is not present, but treated cinematically, through the process of editing and playback.