36x48” Acrylic, spray paint, wallpaper, recycled textiles, and grease pencil on canvas

In adolescence everything feels like it's happening "to you"- it all feels profound and earth shattering. The work of maturing and forming a healthy mental climate comes in learning to withstand emotions and experiences without always attaching meaning to them. Having a safe mental home to rest in is imperative to existence in an environment never free from constant change.

**The works in the Total Woman series explore all sides of my relationships with femininity, women, and the females in my life that have shaped me, in ways positive and negative. In this series I use wallpaper from my childhood home as a placeholder for the personal work I've done exploring my first examples of women, the power of environment in formation of behaviors, and how I approached becoming a mother to a girl myself.