Artist Statement

Ever since I was a little girl all I ever wanted to do was move to the rhythm. At a young age I started dancing and only when I was in highschool and experienced my first serious injury did I realize how strong my passion really was. It was summer and I was in a cast up to my knee. I couldn't train in the studio, I couldn't dance at a party, not even wiggle in the shower. I fell into a depression. I had lost the best way I could communicate and express myself. I had lost my emotional outlet. I felt like I had lost the only world I knew. You should know I can be quite dramatic but it's how I felt at the time. It changed my mood drastically not having that release of endorphins, the ability to dance whenever I wanted. But after some time, I stopped feeling sorry for myself for, it was in no way going to improve my return into the field. I read a book called The Secret and it drew me into the law of attraction. I had to not only want to dance again but believe I would and most importantly visualize myself doing what I love. It was from that moment on that I knew what dance meant to me and how much it surrounded my thought process. Uncovering one layer in addition to the technical aspect of it lead to me uncovering many more. The discipline, artistic craft, heart, the beauty. Dance was my escape through my hardships in my personal life, it was my home away from home where I could clear my mind. It is my way of expression I cannot sometimes formulate into words. That is what inspires me. Finding something you’re so passionate about that you can feel it in the work whether that may be dance, writing or anything else. Through the mediums of photography and video, my work is meant to evoke a thought or feeling as simple or complex the person on the other end allows themselves to receive it.