Sinking

Charcoal and watercolor on paper
2023

Having struggled a lot with feelings of sadness and emptiness I aim to explore the way artists in the past traditionally personified melancholy. For me, that's accompanied by the feeling of floating endlessly or being consumed by blues. This part of my life is ripe with ideas and feelings that I strive to find inspiration in as a means of creating something beautiful out of something hard. In my work I often seek to find commonalities with centuries of artists through depictions of melancholy in the canon, while also cementing my own style and image as part of that history.