Born into generations of New Englanders, I make saturated, seductive, and materially dense paintings depicting the regionally and personally specific. To source my references, I cook whole meals, take trips to markets, scour the internet for historic cookbooks, and gently sort through my grandmother’s handwritten notes. By engaging everyday history, I seek to understand and locate myself. I look to discover the truths and fictions of culture-making, contextualizing my paintings as banal representations of the residue of time and as stand-ins for larger questions.

Like this collision of objects and histories, my practice is an alchemical exploration of acrylic paint: I pour, stencil, airbrush, sand, and render material into the unexpectedly representational. While my paintings may initially seem photorealistic, upon closer viewing the topographical surfaces of each canvas dissolve into color, shape, and texture. I am the historian’s assistant, an heir, and a translator; I create paintings that collapse generational, visual culture and bring specificity into circulation with a contemporary world as a series of additional questions and observations bound up and investigated through the transformative qualities of painting.