Amid The Passing Hours

My creative investigations stem from a consciousness of home, inheritance, restoration, and permanence. I think of my practice as somewhat circular, navigating the ethereal regions of memory and spirituality, then grounding in the tangible, touchable everyday life, before returning again to the atmosphere. I am interested in the tension between the spiritual and the tangible, exploring how these disparate perceptions of life converge and hold meaning for each other in my own everyday experiences. Referencing motifs of Christian iconography such as halos, gold, light, stained glass, banners, and arches, I recontextualize the redemptive narrative of Christianity, raising questions of God’s significance in contemporary human experiences. 

Amid the Passing Hours shows the body of my most recent work, in which I investigate the coexistence of the mundane and the sacred. With the work, I ask — why are we sometimes arrested by the beauty of the most common thing (the playful scatter of leaves on a sidewalk, the slanting lines of light on a bedspread)? What is that intangible, wonderful something that is there in that space and moment? I seek to notice, extract, and recontextualize these common everyday occurrences, extending them beyond their fleeting life. Visually, the work plays on this tension — delicate, tight renderings pull to the earth airy palettes and soft washes. Salvaged fabrics, worn supple by years of use, are segmented, stretched, and manipulated across, around, and through picture frames, wire, curtain rods, lamp armatures, and other found domestic objects. 

This “paying attention to what I pay attention to” has led me to explore how art can function as a mode of restoration. I investigate how delicate renderings, subtle hue shifts, storied materials, and minimal compositions can create space for pause. Through my work, I strive to embody what slow-artist and activist Makoto Fujimura describes as a “citizen artist,” navigating across personal and societal rifts through generative work that invites pause and contemplation. The slow read of my work and the resultant space for contemplation enacts the theory that mindfulness leads to change. 

Through this work, I hope viewers can simply take a breath, look for the wonder in their own lives, and consider what can be found amid the passing hours.