What Holds Us reflects on care, presence, and compassion as ongoing practices shaped throughout the ebb and flow, the effort and ease, of daily life. Drawing from domestic space, personal relationships, and recurring ritual, the works explore how emotional and spiritual stability is cultivated through patience, trust, and commitment. Though visually soft and open, the pieces are constructed through labor-intensive processes such as stitching, papermaking, printmaking, animation, and collage.

Across layered surfaces and intimate imagery, What Holds Us considers the quiet forces that bind and support us: relationships, routines, and reverence for life's simple, everyday moments. Together, the works invite viewers into a contemplative space that honors both making and witnessing, and the subtle ways meaning is built, tended, and held over time.

I am frequently drawn to images of indoor house cats because of what they symbolize to me. As companions, they teach me about living mindfully, for they are fully engaged and surrendered to each moment. As domesticated animals limited to the confines of a house, I see their existence as a metaphor for consciousness seated within the confines of a physical body, constantly experiencing a range of thoughts and feelings. I observe that my own cat is content to be indoors, but she is fascinated by what she can sense through the window—her only connection to the outdoors. This tiny creature stirs many inspiring thoughts about my relationship with both my internal and external experiences. This series is a short love note to her and the impact she has had on my spiritual life and creative practice. 

"Where I Live" consists of 16 mixed media paintings on unstretched canvas, hung side by side in a 13'9” x 40' display. This installation was first exhibited at the Canzani Center in Columbus, OH in 2019. The individual paintings have since been displayed in multiple locations throughout Columbus, OH. The series presents layered imagery of spaces and objects inside the 550-square-foot apartment that I shared with my partner and our cat. Aspects of the apartment merge with creative manifestations of my mind through use of color, pattern, material, and perspective in the form of a large-scale, multi-panel painting. Abstracting these mundane aspects of my everyday life using paint and mixed media, I contend with our apartment as a holding space for both my body and my mind.