The innate feeling of comfort is what draws us in, but the unwelcoming replication of home is what keeps us out.

My oil paintings are an uncanny visual representation of home, not least through the addition of audio, found objects, and writing that directly reference my own home. My work derives from this longing and yearning of the home and the memories associated with it. I am attempting to revitalize that home we once knew by recreating memories that provided me comfort, but now only remind me of what’s been lost. The viewer is meant to feel the absence and presence of family through the sounds of our mothers or the physical representation of a door.

Home is universal, whether bad or good. My body of work is connected to those feelings we have surrounding our homes, attempting to be a form of which people can process their own feelings about this complicated word and maybe find some relief in the knowledge that we all feel homesick at times.