About
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Artist. ARTIST. art ist.
Multidisciplinary. I navigate a path that seeks balance between esotericism and pragmatism, function and meaning… awareness and forgiveness. My Solarpunk optimism grows from deep-seated frustrations with prevailing norms and an embrace of gentleness. Ceramic mixed media sculpture embodies the tangible essence of my making. My social practice prioritises providing platforms for connection and radical vulnerability. Each endeavour is a question, the result as much about the piece as it is about the process.
Questions are central to my being. Reoccurring ones include:
What is the role of the artist in society?
(or rather, MY role as ARTIST).
To draw attention to things passed by? To make meaning?
To inspire? To stimulate an economy? To archive our lives?
To acknowledge and cleanse oneself from the follies of the darkest parts of the human condition in order to create in the purest way, bringing to life creations that can be shared with and for others, rippling hope like a pebble dropped in a pond?
I live in these questions.
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More context…
In 2010 I was first exposed to fine arts training and traditional mediums and practices. ART has always the question. Or maybe questions are always the art…
Do I have to do it this way?
Do we have to?
Are there other ways?
In 2018 I moved to Paris and studied art and media theory, a masters program with a corpus centered around John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. I focused my thesis on the social mechanisms of the Art market while working in parallel selling Art on the contemporary market. In 2020 I joined Atlas V one of the leading VR film and immersive art production studios in France.
In 2024, I swung in an entirely different direction, fully immersing myself in the world of craft, living 3.5 months at Snow Farm Craft School in MA. All of these experiences have contributed to my practice, which is rooted in spiritual expressionism and a critical examination of the construction of Art v. art and the intersection with autonomy, power, and compassion.
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April 30, 2012, age 18, Artist Statement – Norwich CT
“I never call myself an artist…Art to me is all about the process. I am not an artist, but one day I wish to be one. I hope that years and years from now I can reflect on my life and then have the privilege to label myself as an artist… By making art, I become more resolute in the fact that I want to do this my entire life. I can’t even begin to imagine what else I would do. No matter what, I am determined to create and challenge myself. I am determined to one day gain the right to title myself an ARTIST.”
February 2021, age 27, Personal Journal – Paris, France
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