Sorry 4 Oversharing

Making art is my way of contending with the over-saturation of imagery and media we experience on a daily basis. I use paint to materialize “snapshots” of the important people, places, and experiences in my life which I feel exceed the representational limits of the photo. 

I am fascinated by my generation’s obsession with sharing images of our lives on social media and the ridiculousness of the perfectly curated existences we create for ourselves. I think about encapsulating my life in paint as both earnest depictions of my own memories as well as a satirization of this obsession. The compositions I create begin as preliminary drawings and studies which I eventually scale up. The editing process of drawing parallels the way we embellish our visual identities online.