These works are a visual representation of experiences stigmatized to the point of shameful taboo in our culture: the experience of living with mental illness.

Through color, shape, and scale, I abandon verbal communication and instead create a direct, visual language showing the creeping, abiding, and consuming emotional realities of m n a i l e s, the existence of which are often denied.

When something in the human experience is ceremonially ignored because of its encompassing terror, we barely speak about it. We threat m  a i  s like a contagious disease, invalidating and trivializing ubiquitous experiences by denying those living with them a right to speak and connect.

We reduce those with M   i   to binaries of sick and well, instead of allowing room in our culture for difference through accommodation and understanding.

Our refusal erases              completely, giving it enough power to become a narcotizing, un-graspable subject.