Artist Statement:

My process is a constant interplay of observation, imagination, and lived moments. A consistent element in my work is my use of the white space. The decision to leave backgrounds abandoned isn't a dismissal, but a deliberate choice to animate the white space around the subjects, allowing them to command attention. I subvert the black/white trope by using the white of the paper as the void which interrupts and consumes black bodies. This does a couple of things: it calls attention to the shapes their bodies make and also flips the idea of invisibility, questioning who becomes unseeable.