I paint the female body in transformation: pregnancy, birth, postpartum. I focus on the visceral realities of motherhood and how it consumes, ruptures, and remakes the self. I return to the monstrous feminine, to the reproductive body as something feared and revered at once, volatile, leaking, uncontrollable. 

Growing up on a cranberry farm in Massachusetts, I was immersed in cycles of fertilization, growth, and harvest—rhythms that shape my work. Cranberries become metaphors for the reproductive body: swollen, fertile, bleeding. The harvest relies on flooding, a temporary submersion that makes visible what the land is holding. It mirrors my fascination with permeability, with what a body can hold and what it cannot. 

I often use my own body as a model, staging performances for the camera to explore imagery that is personal and archetypal. I draw from folklore and mythology, reimagining figures whose transformations echo the physical and psychological shifts of motherhood. These mythic bodies split and mutate, speaking to the instability of identity during matrescence. I work with acrylic inks on translucent drafting film, letting paint pool, bleed, and stain. 

Through these paintings, I confront motherhood’s contradictions: tenderness and violence, power and erasure, creation and consumption. It is an experience that is both universal and deeply personal.