In the delicate balance between the whimsical and grotesque, my work explores forms found within the body to imagine surreal environments. I first investigated this idea to challenge the obligatory desensitization that occurs when creating medical illustrations on sensitive subjects, like disease. This has since grown into a fascination with what the brain views as attractive versus repulsive. My drawings and paintings have been influenced by a vast variety of imagery and references, such as historical medical illustrations, endoscopic imaging, my own body, photos of cadavers, and dissections. What further influenced my subject matter was my experience and fears surrounding hereditary illness, and having the choice to end a generational pattern. In Uninhabitable I illustrate this visually and viscerally complex relationship with the human body.
