Artist Statement
This body of work focuses on a nonlinear, reimagined personal narrative through depicting mundane, everyday spaces and well-established symbology composed into fantastical and dreamlike configurations. I blend my own past and experiences into the landscape of Suburbia, and how both feel melancholic, confusing, and oftentimes like a generational trap. This narrative loosely follows me as a character, Jill Rabbit, through a delicate and tumultuous dream space. I accumulate a specific catalogue of symbols, such as windows, streets, and domestic paraphernalia, to communicate the things I dwell on in both my personal history and my day-to-day life. My upbringing and my strained family dynamic impacts how I think and move throughout the world and is an integral part of my art making process. This series interpolates my recurring thoughts and anxieties on who I am, how my family has shaped me, and how the ubiquitous suburban structures that have followed me throughout my life engulf how I think about my own future. The idealized American suburban structure is its own fantasy; by putting these structures in their own fantasy space, infused with my history of growing up in these places, I aim to depict a narrative of not only my own reality, but the reality that many in my audience can relate to.
