QUARANTINE MINDSCAPES, 2020 - 2021
I created a series of small drawings (approximately 12.5 x 9 cm per drawing) during quarantine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. These illustrations are both inspired by images and objects around me and drawn intuitively. The dynamically intertwining forms within these confined spaces are suffocating, complex, and turbulent, yet reveal a desire for closeness.
A PSYCHOSOCIOLOGICAL DIARY, 2019-2020
ink pen, pastel, pencil crayon
This series is a record of personal narratives and human interactions, most of which are seen through the lenses of mental illness and trauma. These small drawings are windows into intimate spaces and their portable nature is a metaphor for the memories I carry, both public and private, beautiful and terrible, harmonious and chaotic, delicate and intense, and light and dark. The body is a site of tension between these dichotomies, and the exterior environment is transformed into a mindspace.
DRAWINGS FROM SCOTLAND, 2019
ink pen, pastel
I created this series while living in Scotland. My process involved collaging and reworking imagery and experiences (a contemplative process that is much like organizing a chaotic mindspace into one that is contained and orderly). In these diaristic drawings, I carefully document moments of companionship, loneliness, mental illness, faith, and emotion.
THE PENCIL IS HER TOOL. THE BOOK IS HER CANVAS. BRANCHES DIVIDE BUT ALSO CONNECT. FIRE DESTROYS BUT ALSO PURIFIES
DEW FOR A THIRSTING SOUL, 2018
graphite on rice paper
"Dew for a Thirsting Soul" is a series of drawings that explores pain, yearning, and hope during depression. I referenced the title for this project from entry 501 of St. Faustina's Diary.