my current work, and my work of the past year has been divided into internal/external. the internal has been primarily reflective self portraiture, as i grow and change and try to figure out the person and i am and the person i am becoming. they explore how my one face can really be many, how a simple expression can carry many stories and much weight. projecting the many people i hope to be and that i already am. everyday i look in the mirror and i am so familiar yet i am so strange; beautiful and ugly and creepy and soft and old and childlike. there is something therapeutic but narcissistic about doing self portraits. i give so much of myself that i try to regain a sense of identity.
the external is the concept and study of my growing awareness and concern for social and environmental harms, injustice, and situations. my ideas are often influenced by blurbs in 'national geographic,' history books, the news, and contemporary ongoing issues such as sustainability, animal abuse, social and racial constructs and expectations, and the ways in which all of these affect the earth and its resources.