arockinman

My work is an exploration and a coalescing of who I am as an artist and as a person. Learning to be comfortable with uncertainty is my goal both as an artist and as a human moving through this world.

I love the multiple dualities my work evokes: stillness and movement, structure and entropy, order and chaos, solace and uncertainty, natural objects created from human-made ones. While I begin with an idea of what I think the piece will look like, as I am assembling I let the piece guide me as I go. This process often leads to the organic forms my work takes. I use a lot of discarded and overlooked objects and transform them into something beautiful, unexpected, and fun - I make art stuff from other stuff.

I am almost entirely self-taught except for a few public school art classes and art institutions in adolescence. In addition to this, I am a healthcare professional with years of experience in health and human services. I have worked with different special needs populations such as LGBTQ+, people living with HIV/AIDS, the mentally ill, and the homeless. I hold a master’s degree in Population Health Management from Johns Hopkins University.