My work incorporates plaster, plaster sheets, cracked paint, and carpet fibers to explore color & texture, add a personal style to recognizable imagery, & reference popular cultural trends. Through isolating, pairing, and combining these textural elements, colors, & images, the goal is to appreciate them both separately and together. These textural components can be functionally and aesthetically very different across pieces, but are tied together in material composition, highlighting their versatility and explorative continuity. My series of painted plaster sheet canvases explores themes of depth and movement, using color to set the mood of the viewing experience. Similarly, my paintings depict motion through expressive mark-making & cracking paint, also including distinctive imagery or textural style that tie them together. My pink series combines the materials of its predecessors in a new way, nodding to the romance of pinks and reds, and combining the resurgence of coquette fashion and popularization of tinned fish in the late 2010s & early 2020s. The materials and techniques that I work with both function on their own as textural abstractions and inform more popularized and representational imagery.