Artist Statement

As an artist I am primarily drawn to the nature of personal identity and cultural displacement. This comes from my own experiences of being both a culturally assimilated Native American as well as a Southerner raised up with a strong regional identity. I often explore the nature of identity and how it can be displaced or effected through the lens of Americana, specifically through dialogue with 20th century American art such as the works of John Updike, Edward S. Curtis and the Hollywood system. 

I also explore the mundane as well as psychology of place through my work, specifically how people can be defined culturally by the personal, physical and social space they can be forced to inhabit, especially as a biracial individual who has often had to inhabit multiple spaces at once. My chosen mediums for these interests are cinema and photography due to how they can seemingly capture the mundane world as it is but all through the imperfect eye of the lens and the artist's own subjective viewpoint. All of this coalesces in my own work of documentary/narrative films and photo projects.