These works are illustrations of perpetual observers: usually small, sometimes shadowy strangers doing their best to navigate a weird and eerie world that was clearly not made with them in mind.
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Drawing is used here as a tool to craft affective and quietly immersive landscapes across multiple media: painting, bookmaking, intaglio printmaking, animation, and written works. They describe and document the ambiguities permeating interpersonal connections and grapple with the notion of carving out space for oneself in a world that incentivizes isolation and mistrust.
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Concepts from classical theatre instruction, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and personal experience inform the work. A neatly legible collection of signs (motifs and their respective allusions) repeatedly reveal themselves within carefully crafted compositions inspired by storybooks and animated films. These works rearrange a pre-conceived lexicon to describe weird and whimsical and peculiarly welcoming worlds. Within these delicately articulated microcosms, they quietly assert that connection is possible and the greatest revelations are sometimes uncovered in unlikely places.