“My work relates to high school adolescence through its connection to imaginary worlds and stories. Teen years are a time of possibility and invincibility where a person’s world is expanding with potential while still holding a bit of childhood naivete. As a child, I often wished for my life to be a little more magical, intergalactic, and unconstrained by the rules of common sense and order. This translated into many sources of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and folklore that influence the ever-growing world my artworks live in. The world is a little goth, definitely magical, full of unrealistic technology and artifacts. It’s inhabited by strange creatures alongside the many versions of myself I’ve imagined over the years from wild childhood to awkward adolescence to confused early adulthood. The world is full of witches, cyborgs, nymphs, aliens, abandoned castles, cursed underground catacombs, space farms, and lunar madness. My objects and jewelry may suggest a part of the world, such as an interesting necklace held by two clawed hands in a deep cavern, but can only offer glimpses of it. To see the rest of the world requires a person’s remaining bits of childhood imagination and teenaged invincibility.”