Shared Solitude

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In earthy materials there are spiritual energies that are transformed through personal interactions and artistic practices. I arrange materials to reflect our relationship to the natural world around us. Like the layers of a dirt mound that accumulates over time, my work represents a stratification of histories. I probe our lineage of humans as a dominating force over an animal world. This centuries old narrative has actively erased the physical connections found within the natural world. Instead, those who sought care within and from nature were met with intense violence, exemplified in witch hunts, which served as a method to strategically enforce capitalism through the subjection of women and other members of underrepresented groups through torture and death. Homage to Palestine is ever present in my work, seeing the violent oppression of the Palestinian people, who live under constant threat of being severed from their land, exemplifying this in my lifetime.&nbsp; I rethink this narrative through the social representations of human, animal, and nature, finding shared solitude and peace within the space that all living beings exist within. My work takes natural and human made materials, transforming them into spiritual entities, making objects to honor the natural world and protest against suppression. These acts metamorphose into paintings and sculptures, time machines to imagine new futures.</span>