My paintings’ shifting readability generates a fluidity between absence and presence, reflecting the flickering state of being created from living with a chronic disease. Working with motifs of miniatures and toys, I am interested in scale, motion, and repetition. What does it mean to make the miniature giant, to make the giant miniature, or to allow the miniature to remain?

The mechanisms of illness represent something miniature growing, taking space, and yet existing on a scale that is much smaller than the effects it causes. The figurines waver between motion and motionless, animation and stillness. At times they feel moveable but not necessarily mobile. Their appearances in the paintings represent a psychological space and the inner workings of the body. The multiplicity of the miniatures references repetitive bodily processes and the cyclical nature of being.