ART PRACTICE

I expand and blur boundaries between disciplines to create responsive public art and participatory works that inspire self-awareness, connection to community, and a global perspective. I make art by engaging with the people, places and cultures that surround me—and I include them in the process. As such, they become part of the work itself. I facilitate workshops, sketching sessions, and group contributions to my projects, dispelling limiting preconceived notions about art and who is an artist, allowing anyone who pursues their creative potential to be empowered to achieve it.

My work spans large-scale to intimate pieces, adapting to reach into accessible human spaces such as homes, salons, meeting spaces, mailboxes, public parking lots and pockets. Drawing upon my study and practice of mixed-media painting, photography, poetry, abstract Asian calligraphy, book arts and design, I blend and build techniques, compositions and curated experiences across a spectrum of materials including acrylic, chalk, ink and collage on textured fabrics, sketchbooks, asphalt, sidewalks, walls and bulletin boards. Working in this way gives me the freedom to express what I want to communicate in the language most suited to the message.

My work encompasses the pieces I make, as well as the context in which I create it and others experience it. The journey of each piece through its own life cycle is integral to its significance, just as our physicality and experience shape us as humans. We are all artists, just as we’re also living objects of art.