My work investigates a feral childhood, the between-space between neglect and whimsy in the arid Southern California landscape. Questioning the construct of the American dream; the ways it failed my family and how we survived. I use symbolic images and multimedia applications to explore speculative memories, how we inhabit spaces, or disappear within them. Giving material form to memories within these relationships instigates a decay of self-presence. The object now holds the memory. Spaces are drawn, flattened, then reimagined in hollow line or dimension without form. An act of unsettling and repopulating. My objects are utilitarian, simple, awkward, and absurd. My drawings rely heavily on line. My performances explore the artifacts that remain once they are finished. They investigate care, maternal joy and exhaustion. It’s unclear if these spaces and objects I create are public or if viewing them is an intrusion into a private moment. This uncertainty excites me.