I look to poetry as a vehicle for empathy and a means to transform. Through an interdisciplinary practice that includes printmaking, bookmaking, installation and writing, she considers the function of text and language- its ability to be misused, translated into imagery, and its power to influence emotion. Poetry is a product of misusing language; it asks the reader to rearrange their structures of meaning and syntax. Using a copier machine, the text of found and original writing is pulled apart to create complex, overlapping imagery, which meld together, separate and renew. Through the repetitive act of swiping and crumpling paper, the text is transformed. This process mirrors the transformation that conventional language undergoes in poetry.

Through the understanding that language is insufficient, but indispensable, I am concerned with the interpretation and importance of parts. I make work that can only be experienced in pieces, that repeats itself and feels simultaneously like moving forward and waiting. This process speaks to the insufficiency of language as a tool to express, to feelings of frustration, of false progress, and broken wholes. The misuse of language through dismembering and abstraction of text bodies creates communication that is enamored with
the unknown and especially receptive to the act of becoming.