Where I Live (2019)

Where I Live consists of 16 mixed media paintings on unstretched canvas, hung side by side in a 13'9” x 40' display. This installation was first exhibited at the Canzani Center in Columbus, OH in 2019. The individual paintings have since been displayed in multiple locations throughout Columbus, OH.

My cat greets me at the door. She digs her claws into the coarse, shallow carpet that covers the apartment floor. I take off my shoes, turn on the lights, and settle into this space of my own making. Within safe and familiar walls, I move, think, and speak freely. Memories blend together, routines and rituals repeat themselves, and dreams of past and future moments invoke excitement as well as paralyzing anxiety.

Where I Live presents layered imagery of spaces and objects inside the 550-square-foot apartment that I share with my partner and our cat. Aspects of the apartment merge with creative manifestations of my mind through use of color, pattern, material, and perspective in the form of a large-scale, multi-panel painting. Abstracting these mundane aspects of my everyday life using paint and mixed media, I contend with our apartment as a holding space for both my body and my mind.