I am a mixed media artist, synthesizing my work through the most intimate and turbulent relationships in my life to investigate time, searching for a way to exist in complete temporal freedom. 

Currently, my identity and reality are shaped by my role as a caretaker for my grandmother, Tana, who is experiencing late-stage dementia. She is my greatest inspiration and source of purpose. 

I question time: its origins, its passage, its perception, its preservation, the blurred lines between the past, present, and future. 

Time is manufactured, constructed of measurements based on natural observations. We have established a global timekeeping system, but it’s not real. Time is not tangible. A clock, however, is. A clock is a concrete, universally comprehensible symbol.

Dementia patients, or anyone with a significant brain injury, are asked to draw a clock to assess brain function at neurological evaluations. When I learned of this, I asked her to draw a clock for me. Not to test her, but to have a better understanding of how she is experiencing the world. We ended up making dozens of drawings, each one remarkably different from the others. Numbers were missing (or multiplied), sometimes the clock face was an actual face, or the task was forgotten and set aside halfway through. 

Unbounded freedom. Temporal disobedience that unknowingly resisted and reconceptualized standardized time-keeping systems, defying an imposed and predictable existence. 

Thinking of time linearly as constant, unending, and unforgiving is exhausting and limiting.

I seek to create my own timekeeping system, just like my grandmother. A way to make a visual language that gives me the freedom to place more value in moments that have made me feel the most human, but have little semblance to worldly logic.