

I'm a printmaker, graphic designer, and writer based in Rockland, Maine. I recieved a BA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking as well as a degree in Creative Writing from Colby College. I have experience in design and layout for promotional print materials, as well as experience in website design and logo design. In my printmaking practice, I specialize in collagraphy. Home, community, nature, and my experience with disability inspires me the most to create.
ARTIST STATEMENT
from Colby College Printmaking Capstone
One day in late January,
I hugged my sick body into myself in the snow.
The cold painted the trees red
and I listened to the static silence
of the woods behind my childhood home. One day in late September,
I felt the cold wet of the rain soak
Through my jeans and I watched
it drown the goldenrod and queen-anne's lace -
the kind you can't keep from coming back.
One day in late October,
Memaw had a heart attack
so I went down to the stream to ask why.
I thought I should -- I didn't need to.
I saw a maple leaf float softly past. I knew why. I try hard to bend with the seasons,
like the plants do, but
my body is marcescent, brittle
and always has been.
It's the victim and the perpetrator,
and I'm just me forever.
But there's a strange comfort
in knowing that you're only your body.
You feel the ground under your feet -
Like you are a part of it.
Like it will forever hold you up On days I feel too weak for change,
I walk to the field
to be amongst the dead flowers -
to see myself, the ones I love, to know
that brokenness is a requirement for life
and we're all just living.
And so, on cold days in late December,
I spill myself into the arms
of my family, my friends, a tree, this place.
I say thank you and I might even cry.
It's all we can ever really do.
I hug them hard.
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