Research Log

early 2026: buttons, zippers, the void, big paintings, fashion, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, secrecy, manifest vs. latent content

fall 2025: psychoanalysis & psychiatry, addiction, aging, anxiety, ADHD

summer 2025: psychoanalysis, Sándor Ferenczi house, Art Nouveau and Secession, pattern, contemporary Japanese illustration, self-portraiture, autobiography, cafes

early 2025: spas, pools, Bali, beauty pageants, colored pencils, fine paper, watercolor

fall 2024: community psychoanalysis, the unconscious, social work

summer 2024: work histories, interviewing and oral history, Iceland, wildflowers, crafting, murals, functional ceramics

early 2024: man-made landscapes, skateparks, bridges, theme parks, Las Vegas, rollercoasters

fall 2023: psychoanalysis, illustration, hard edge abstraction, pattern and decoration, animals, folktales, fairytales, fables, myths

summer 2023: fairytales, folklore, the enchanted rose in Beauty and the Beast, realism, oil paint, preppy, glowing

spring 2023 - deserts, Prussian Blue

late 2022 - winter 2023: paint, acrylic gel, glitter, Canal Plastics, the sky, purging

mid 2022: “Why did the chicken cross the road?”, aluminum, trees/wood, gel, microplastics, droplets, White-tailed deer, jumbo stuffed animals, Depop, eroticism, memoir, Y2K graphic tees, the censored, the pornographic, the explicit, the taboo, roadkill

late 2021: porcelain dolls, mall culture, internet aesthetics, endangered animals, clouds

spring 2021: installation, site, Frankenstein, viewership

fall 2020: pattern and decoration, glitter, clouds

summer 2020: psychological space, cultural landscape, resistance, dichotomies, binaries, spectrums, contrast, rest

early 2020: masks, costumes, disguises, theater, performance, mannequins, stand-ins, Rising signs

late 2019: unicorns, rainbows, butterflies, Renaissance Equestrian Battle Paintings, The Aurora Borealis, ocean currents, stuffed animals, Fashion, cute vs. camp, the spectacle

mid 2019: affect theory, optimism, rainbows, unicorns, glitter, mermaids, magic, flower shops, cemeteries, grief, loss, memorials, monuments, sentimentality, nostalgia, cultural memory

early 2019: roadside memorials, neon & metallic color, the dollar store

late 2018: freedom, fantasy, failure, kitsch, sentimentality

early 2018: nature as refuge, spiritual architecture, new age spirituality, digital culture, ghosts, emojis

summer 2017: modern crafting material, hangings, storytelling

spring 2017: hidden feelings & intentions, language as symbol, disparity in mental presence & physical presence

early 2017: memories and fantasies, site-specific architecture, youth culture

winter 2016: documenting, zooming in/out, abstraction

fall 2016: accessibility to space, luxury products and lifestyles, recycling, shrines, childhood trauma, nostalgia, and obituaries