our unspecial place

For my thesis show I’ve made work about care (in a few different modes and mediums), and I invite you to celebrate this accomplishment with me. There is a layering of process and ideas present in my practice. I’m pouring much of myself into the work in the hope that I can provide many different entry points for other people to look in.

Maybe I am also erasing exits because I want to keep people closer for longer. It is a confusing mess where I am trying to nudge what painting means to me into a different space, and hoping that my intention will be recognized.

A kind of rescuing is happening in my compositions that mirrors this desire: In my day to day life, I am searching for toys at thrift stores and estate sales. I’ve been looking for the ones that seem to ask for another chance. Some of them remind me of friendships in my life, of qualities in people I admire.The toys cast in the paintings can find new lives in them.