My current series, En Masse, explores the idea of communal isolation and the ways this can devolve our personal, emotional states. In these paintings and drawings I imagine how social groupings—shared habits, practices, or beliefs—can rewire personal identity in the pursuit of belonging.

Often depicting both isolation and connection in the same compositions, En Masse looks at social connection intertwined with feelings of estrangement and the bonds that can become twisted as they define our communal existence.

Through built layers of paint scraped over loosely hung, splattered canvas and combined with indistinct figures and curious massing, I work to create a visceral response through scale and sparseness. With this visual dissonance and various narrative undercurrents of social to emotional aggregation, I try to imagine little moments just beyond the edge of our attention that might be the pretext to something bigger.