My work explores the environments that shape us, their effect on how we live in our bodies, and how we train ourselves to be perceived by others. I work in painting, photography, and performance video, exploring how I can present the figure as a motif and universal icon, as well as an honest, sometimes exposing, self-portrait. I use the camera as a tool of consumption, projecting an image of a figure performing for a viewer, propping herself into a pose to be inhaled and indulged. I paint on large surfaces, letting my embodied figurative sketches drive the composition, and react to them as I build the space, pushing and pulling with the foreground and background, revealing and taking away the image of the subjects. Showing you the figure and then masking her. The female figure has been manipulated, crafted, and showcased as one of the centerpieces of American visual culture. In my work, I use the figure to manipulate and play with the viewer, reminding them of their watching eyes. Taking inspiration from the avant-garde performance art movement and the abstract expressionist movement, my work plays with presenting the familiar in an abstract space, creating a new, sometimes unsettling discovery.