This body of work explores metaphors within a feverish terrain, where firelight and desiccation confront images of sultry abundance. The natural world curls, expands, and pulls apart from itself forming stages for symbolic acts. People, and other animals, hover and move through the brittle landscapes, exploring the various fractures and joinery between subjects and their ambitions. Passages of reality border fantasy, presented through light, color, composition, and allegory. 

The work is concerned with when things break: when fantasies of the natural world are viewed through a gluttonous lens. Lighting cites the real state of the climate, and compositions asks the viewer's relationship to the subject. The paintings ask questions through the balance between what is presented to us, and the skotia which demands consideration of what is hidden. Pulling from art history, the work alludes to the fruit and tree of Eden, Platonic metaphors, Venus’ shell, and Narcissus’s reflection pool. While rooted in classical narratives, archetypes fall apart as personal mythology narrates the complexities of desire.  

This body of work explores the symmetry between bodies, and how they hold within them representations of
love, duality, and mythology. Through various drawing and printmaking techniques, diptychs, triptychs, and reflected compositions explore relationships and draw similes. The work investigates the simultaneous intimacy and distance between individuals, and questions heterogeneity.