I am a white non-binary artist based in Charlestown MA. My pronouns are they/them/theirs. I make large charcoal drawings as a to move towards social and environmental justice. I believe that marks leave behind stories.
I work with charcoal powder on paper and experiment with mono print techniques to make double images of my drawings. I believe this iterative process speaks to cycles of intergenerational trauma.
Histories of trauma embed in our cells, muscles, relationships, culture, power structures, and how we treat the planet. Microcosms reflect macrocosms. If legacies of oppression and destruction are at the core of this country, how does that manifest in our bodies, our institutions, our ecologies, and our communities?
When pain becomes too much for us to bare we look away. How do we draw things that white folks have been trained not to see? I believe the residue of our cultural baggage leaves behind ghost marks. My work aims to find peace with these ghosts. We cannot 'de-ghost the darkness’ but we can try to live alongside them and speak their names.