I often feel stuck in a constant back-and-forth, not quite a cycle but a sort of tug-of-war. I’m intrigued by the polarities of the world and of my own internal self - the things that contrast but somehow co-exist. In my current stage of life, I simultaneously feel hopeful and lost.

 

Like the tide that ebbs and flows.

A scattered seed can flourish and wither.

 

Similarly, I am interested in the tension between photography and drawing: their shared and separate purposes in history, their differing mechanical and manual processes, and the perceptions of both that have shaped how we use them today. There is a distance that has been wedged between the two mediums.

 

Back and forth.

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My work aims to close the gap, to both break this tension and explore it further. I do this by creating images that combine hand-drawn self-portraiture with photographic scenes of nature. My body, drawn realistically, has been planted amid vivid photographic abstractions; I have been calmly scattered amongst the beautiful chaos of nature, into close-ups of flowers, leaves, and water. Here, I can flourish, I can wither.

 

Back and forth, back and forth.

I am a seed, scattered.