About
My fascination with catholic imagery is not because I've had a difficult experience with the church. In fact my church experience was far less traumatic than my ones with school or dance. But because of the way the Catholic imagination
takes something as brutal as Jesus' crucifixion and commodifies it. A martyr worn on millions of people's neck. This beauty has replaced brutality. That is the crux of my practice: to balance the brutal with the beautiful.
To revel in the majesty of suffering. There in that pain is where I find meaning. We all have hurt inside of us. We all have our own crosses to bear but with art, people don't have to suffer alone. In my work there is beauty only because of the pain I've carried with me from the past. And by creating rather than destroying my wounds are begging to heal and that is why I do this.