ARTIST & MIRROR MUSE

I use the hypo-realistic medium of magazine clippings to tell hyper-realistic threads of the human experience that are often lesser spoken of: human suffering, the struggle for honest self-expression, and self-awareness. In response to normalized states of extreme beauty, I like to use what I call "ugly beauty" to highlight the tension of innocence against hardship that pulls at the untold seams of social discourse. I love taking what is given and stretching its capacity to speak about the universality of struggle rarely found on the pages of beauty magazines—because I think it is true beauty.