Installation view from Liminal Space: 2019 SMFA Senior Thesis
Exhibition. Thesis project statement: Why do I love what I fear? There are things that
keep me awake at night, wondering if they will be my downfall. These things fascinate
me. They also give me anxiety. In my work, past and present, I have always touched on
how anxiety can affect people, how it drives us to feel lost within ourselves. But I
always felt like there was something more to it than just that. Working through this
thought after feeling stuck in my work and creation process it became apparent that
while I was focusing clearly on anxiety itself, I was ignoring everything that triggered
it. Anxiety has more depth to it than just being anxiety and at times there is a
mysticism to it that makes it all the more complex.