My work explores the concept of identity and how it is shaped by belonging to a particular place. As someone who relocated many times throughout my youth and without that permanent experience of place, I use maps, mapping symbols, and personal iconography to create fictional, illusory mappings of a place to belong.

Referencing towns and cities I have lived in but never fully belonged to, I merge a variety of maps from diverse sources in my paintings and drawings. Using collage, mixed media and paint, I layer collages of actual maps, painted maps, mapping symbols and along with my own iconography, the wave, to create a newfound place of belonging.