My work grows out of a patchwork of brambles and weeds; the interwoven questions of religion, relationships, and societal roles in the 21st century.

Struggling to find and understanding of myself, the process of carving away of the medium as it relates to woodcut relief serves as a carving away of that which feels inauthentic; the repetition and process of printmaking, seeking to refine the final product, a meditative practice as I seek to refine myself.

Influenced by the storytelling culture of the rural American south, and the evangelical blue-collar culture I was raised in, I seek to determine and define a personal symbology and narrative through my work. Allowing visual aspects to grow and interweave between individual pieces and bodies of work, I find the foundation of every piece I make to be the same, even as the content of the work changes. Through excursion into my past, my present, and my imagined future, and the expression of the fantastical imagination as a playground for the mundane, I am trying to prune back unwanted branches in order to allow a continually refined understanding to flower fully.

Borrowing from Joseph Campbell’s ideas on the monomyth and an existentialist understanding of finding one’s purpose, I aim for my work to serve just as much as a collectively relatable struggle alongside a individual narrative; imbuing each image with the specificity of an autobiography, while grappling with the common struggles shared by many others. I am exploring a struggle to find oneself, a struggle to recognize who we reflect in life, and a struggle with coming to terms with the eventuality of what our life will become.