ARTIST STATEMENT    

My practice explores the human condition, addressing mortality, control, visibility, resilience, and cultural and intergenerational conditioning through a feminist lens. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and film, I draw on narrative strategies informed by my background as a storyteller to construct works that are personal and at times autobiographical, while extending beyond individual experience. As an example of this, I create immersive, set-like installations that function as narrative environments while containing distinct works. I also work in living sculpture, a conceptual practice that brings together performance, sculptural form, and other media. 

My sculpture practice incorporates vintage found objects, often times artifacts from my own childhood, alongside handmade forms. I frequently use idealized mannequin fragments, garments, and domestic materials, invoking culturally constructed Western ideals of female beauty and roles for women. Through their arrangement and transformation, these materials become vehicles through which I investigate identity, objectification, bodily autonomy, intergenerational imprint, and impermanence.

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My paintings move between abstraction and figuration, saturation and restraint, expression and control. I employ simplified forms, distorted bodies, graphic black linework, and surreal elements. I sign my work Dagu, the name I gave myself as a child, honoring my intuitive process, and the value of childlike exploration.