I construct sculptural paintings using everyday materials I collect such as cardboard, wood, foil, and buttons. The works are fragile altarpieces capturing the passage of time. A diamond grid references the windowpanes from my childhood home while the painted foil plates are inspired by landscape painters like Winslow Homer and Georgia O’Keefe. Each work is a visual journal entry constructed through layers: layers of paint and color, but also layers of memories, feelings, and places I’ve lived. I’m interested in the back and forth between experience, memory, and the ways art extends in us the recognition of beauty and significance in our day to day. I’m working towards poeticism, whether it’s seen through the transparency of color, the push and pull of space blending in on itself, or the chaotic and rhythmic mark making.