I am a mixed media artist originally from Royal Oak, Michigan. I graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine art with an emphasis in print media. My work focuses on memory, temporality, and nostalgia through collage, image transfer, and hand sewing on paper. I have exhibited locally in Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Ypsilanti, Detroit, and Lansing, as well as internationally through PxP Contemporary Gallery and Away Art Gallery. My work has also been included in various international publications such as Candyfloss Magazine and Le Monde newspaper. I’m currently based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Memories are fleeting and inconsistent; they can be borrowed and shared, but no one memory is exactly the same. Every time we recall memories from our long-term memory, in particular, some of the information either gets lost in the retrieval or our brains fill in small gaps with other memories, resulting in a slightly different and ever changing “false” memory. In my work, I explore how our memories alter and shift narratives; I'm interested in examining the ways in which our memories undergo changes as we age and we try to hold onto those precious moments of people and places that we love and want to remember forever, but lose bits of them through those countless retrievals in our heads. I pull both personal and borrowed memories from family photos, letters, and other found vintage ephemera to create new ‘memoryscapes’ and stories that reflect the fleetingness of memories with a strong sense of nostalgia and a hint of melancholy.
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