Artist Statement

My work explores how love, while a seemingly simple human emotion, reveals itself to be a complex catalyst that shapes our entire being throughout our lives. How love drives us, terrifies us, elates us, confuses us, kills us, and keeps us alive. Additionally, my work falls outside of the culturally-saturated idea of heteronormative romantic love and focuses more on the different forms that the emotion takes on. I am interested in exploring the way love permeates motherhood, nature, queer relationships, and platonic friendships.

Furthermore, I want my work to be cognizant of how love can create trauma that affects the human experience and how that influences memory. I believe that there should be more works that are willing to delve into this territory. Every human experiences traumatic events, and by opening the conversation into how trauma can be passed down through family or how it can easily creep into relationships, it allows the audience to not feel trapped by their own experiences. I am inspired by how David Lynch explores trauma through abstraction, Greta Gerwig's unique love letters to different cities, and Luca Guadagnino's depictions of unwavering passion. Like these directors have done for me, I hope to use screenwriting and stories to make art that stirs emotions that were perhaps long locked away. Lastly, I want my work to be able to make the reader or viewer feel seen through the text. I feel it is extremely important for people to know that their experiences are not singular, but rather felt by multitudes.