>> MY JOURNEY INTO ART, I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN DRAWN TO IT FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER.

MY PARENTS WERE ALWAYS SUPER SUPPORTIVE.

I THINK MY FIRST VENTURE INTO ART WAS SIX YEARS OLD, COPYING A SCOOBY-DOO COMIC.

I WOULD GO BACK AND FORTH FOR AWHILE, BUT I ALWAYS KNEW IT WAS THE MAIN THING I WANTED TO PURSUE.

I WOULD DESCRIBE MY WORK AS SURREAL FIGURATIVE ART.

I WORK BIG.

I WORK IN OILS.

I LIKE TO TAKE UP A LOT OF SPACE WITH THE WORK.

A LOT OF IT IS FOCUSED ON SCENES LIKE DREAMSCAPE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS.

I FELL I'M IN A BLUE PERIOD AT THE MOMENT.

I HAVE BEEN REALLY DRAWN TO A LOT OF SAILOR BLUES AND SOME PURPLES, AND I FEEL LIKE THOSE ARE SORT OF SYMBOLICALLY RICH BECAUSE THEY SORT OF REPRESENT THAT DEEP DIVE INTO A MORE LIKE SPIRITUAL UNCONSCIOUS SPACE, WHICH IS WHAT I FEEL LIKE I'M IN RIGHT NOW AND TRYING TO EXPLORE.

BUT I ALSO LOVE THE MORE NATURAL, MUTED COLOR PALETTES FOR WHEN I'M FEELING MORE CONNECTED TO THE SPACE AROUND ME.

IT SWINGS BACK AND FORTH.

WHEN PEOPLE LOOK AT MY PIECES, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE NOT GOING SEE A TYPICAL FEMININE BODY.

THEY ARE GOING TO BE A LITTLE AWKWARD, A LITTLE UGLY.

THEY ARE GOING TO BE A LITTLE WEIRD LOOKING, AND I THINK, FOR ME, THAT SPEAKS TO, YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT US AS WOMEN, WE ARE TYPICALLY PORTRAYED AS OBJECTS OF DESIRE, BUT WE ARE MORE THAN THAT.

I THINK DEEP DOWN, IT CAN BE HARD FOR US TO SEE THAT REFLECTED IN OUR WORK, SO I KIND OF HOPE TO CAPTURE MOMENTS WHERE SOMEONE MIGHT NOT FEEL BEAUTIFUL.

THEY MIGHT FEEL A LITTLE BIT MORE REAL AND A LITTLE BIT MORE WILD.

I LIKE DEPICTING THE FEMININE BODY ALMOST AS A CREATURE, VERSES AN OBJECT TO BE REFLECTED.

THE ONE THING I REALLY WANT TO STRESS ABOUT MY ART IS I FIND THERE'S SORT OF AN INADEQUACY OF LANGUAGE AND SOME THINGS THAT CAN ONLY BE EXPRESSED SYMBOLICALLY.

THAT'S WHAT I HOPE TO TOUCH ON.

MY LEAST FAVORITE QUESTION I ALWAYS GET FROM FOLKS IS WHAT DOES THIS PAINTING MEAN?

I REALLY WANT THEM TO INTERPRET MY WORK ALMOST LIKE THEY ARE INTERPRETING A TAROT CARD READING.

A LOT OF THE IMAGERY THEY PAINT IS SOLELY UNCONSCIOUS IMAGERY, WHICH IS, OF COURSE, VERY SPECIFIC TO ME, BUT WHEN I'M BRINGING IT OUT INTO THE WORLD AND INTO A PAINTING AND INTO A GALLERY, I DON'T REALLY WANT IT TO SPEAK ABOUT ME IN PARTICULAR.

I WANT IT TO RESINATE WITH PEOPLE ON AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I SAY IS THAT I WANT MY WORK TO SORT OF BE A PUZZLE FOR THE VIEWER TO FIGURE OUT.

THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT SYMBOLS, AND SOMETIMES A LOT OF CLASHING SYMBOLS, AND I THINK THOSE SPEAK TO PEOPLE IN WAYS THAT I NEVER WOULD HAVE EVEN GUESSED, BUT, YEAH, IT SORT OF BRINGS US TOGETHER INTO A SORT OF COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS IN SPACE.