My curiosity has always been one of the main driving forces behind my creative endeavors. It is what drove me to choose printmaking as my concentration during my undergraduate program, as printmaking offers many unique techniques and processes and I needed to try them all. With this curiosity and my frequent introspection, I began working in an abstract, intuitive way, as I was attracted to that quality from abstract expressionists. This allowed me to release emotions that I felt like I did not know how to express before. In turn, I became focused on visualizing overlapping and complex emotions that arise from life’s experiences; emotions that reflect a state of being.

As I experiment with new printmaking processes and techniques in my practice, I focus on how to combine them to create my own visual language that can grasp the subtlety between two related emotions, while also capturing the elusiveness of emotions that one can have in different states of being. As I approach a new composition, I don’t have a specific emotion in mind that I want to express, instead I let the process of making put me into a meditative flow state, letting me and the work become one. This lets me embrace the spontaneity of my gestural marks. Using different printmaking processes allows me to make calculated and intuitive decisions as I continue to layer the surface one process at a time. This makes a print become more complex, but also the more accurate it becomes to the range of emotion that I’m trying to invoke.