Artist Statement

I create digital and analog collage works that merge digital construction with hand-assembled physical processes to examine femininity as layered, constructed, and culturally inherited. Working in serialized bodies of work, I build expansive visual mythologies in which each collage functions as an individual narrative while contributing to a larger symbolic world. Using vintage ephemera, archival imagery, and manipulated photographs, I digitally construct compositions that are then printed, cut, and layered into dimensional works. Through this process, archival fragments, cultural memory, and contemporary mythology intersect.

Rooted in Louisiana, my practice draws from the visual language and folklore of the American South—not as documentation, but as symbolic terrain. Bayou ecosystems, devotional imagery, historic architecture, and regional artifacts become vehicles for exploring womanhood, transformation, ritual, and cultural memory. By fragmenting and reconstructing found imagery, I create contemporary mythologies that invite viewers to reconsider inherited narratives and the ways place, history, and identity shape one another.

Through collage, I seek to preserve contradiction rather than resolve it, creating spaces where beauty and unease, tenderness and resilience, history and imagination coexist. Across each series, familiar symbols and archival fragments are transformed into contemporary mythologies, inviting viewers to linger, uncover layered meanings, and reconsider the stories we inherit about place, history, and womanhood.