Artist Statement

I believe that I am a storyteller, first beyond all else. As a storyteller I choose to tell my stories and the stories of others visually. I appreciate the difficulty and refinement it takes to visually tell a story. I also want to tell non-fiction stories. There is something very real about understanding a person through their experience. I want to delve into different types of people intimately. I want those people to know me intimately so I can attempt to tell their story to the world.

I am not jaded enough to think that it is my responsibility to tell other people's stories. It's not, people tell their stories everyday. However, when someone gives me the opportunity to look within them and share with me who they are, it is more for me than for them. What I mean is that I love to listen, then take what I've hard and turn it into something creative.

Tell every story. I want to tell stories that have never been heard before. They don't have to be elaborate or riveting at every point. But instead, getting to know someone who lives in rural Alabama and has lived their her entire life is more interesting to me than putting together a multi million dollar production about a fabrication of the same exact thing. Reality is daunting.

Simply I want to share realities through story telling.