University of North Texas 
I have been in love with printmaking since I first encountered it. The processes are
engaging
and grounding, and have forced me to develop a looseness in my creative process which I value highly.
My current body of work explores relationships between oneself and one's emotions, other people, and
the world. In order to make the feelings in my work more approachable, especially when they are
inspired by specific events in my own life, I use the lens of animal scenes reminiscent of fairytales and
fables. I am double majoring in printmaking and ecology. My background studying biological and
ecological systems shows itself as an environmentalist tone throughout my work. I do my best to
highlight flora and fauna native to the Texas Blackland Prairies and Cross Timbers regions that I live in.
I have most recently been interested in ways to make prints more interactive and setting the viewer into
this storybook, natural space. As I learn more about printmaking and different processes, and
especially as I begin to fuse my printmaking practice with sculpture, I am working to be intentional with
how the processes I am using informs the work. My flithograph “Tend Your Garden”, addressed a shift
from overanalyzing romantic relationships to eventually submitting to how you feel. This past semester I
have been exploring the idea of control issues and the various ways I see them in myself, and
expressing these through intaglio prints. The history of intaglio being used for loose, spontaneous work
forces me to actively combat the issues I am addressing in the first place. Overall I create work to
explore and address areas of my own life, but in a way that can be approachable to outside viewers as
well.
and grounding, and have forced me to develop a looseness in my creative process which I value highly.
My current body of work explores relationships between oneself and one's emotions, other people, and
the world. In order to make the feelings in my work more approachable, especially when they are
inspired by specific events in my own life, I use the lens of animal scenes reminiscent of fairytales and
fables. I am double majoring in printmaking and ecology. My background studying biological and
ecological systems shows itself as an environmentalist tone throughout my work. I do my best to
highlight flora and fauna native to the Texas Blackland Prairies and Cross Timbers regions that I live in.
I have most recently been interested in ways to make prints more interactive and setting the viewer into
this storybook, natural space. As I learn more about printmaking and different processes, and
especially as I begin to fuse my printmaking practice with sculpture, I am working to be intentional with
how the processes I am using informs the work. My flithograph “Tend Your Garden”, addressed a shift
from overanalyzing romantic relationships to eventually submitting to how you feel. This past semester I
have been exploring the idea of control issues and the various ways I see them in myself, and
expressing these through intaglio prints. The history of intaglio being used for loose, spontaneous work
forces me to actively combat the issues I am addressing in the first place. Overall I create work to
explore and address areas of my own life, but in a way that can be approachable to outside viewers as
well.
