ink on paper bags

This series of works is an extension of my body of workA Big Enough Bowl, which I started during my residency at Stove Works. A Big Enough Bowl explores ideas of portability, folklore, and the artist as a traveling storyteller. The works, painted on large surfaces made from multiple paper bags found in the Stove Works kitchen and my kitchen in Vienna, fold up to the size of a shoe box or an envelope and allow me to travel with them as I make work between home, unstable housing situations, and residencies. The works are strongly influenced by the mythology and folklore of my childhood without truly belonging anywhere but the perpetually disconnected, un-belonging autistic brain. They tell stories that are both highly personal and shrouded in mystery - merely the silhouette of a narrative, accompanied by text from notes written while half asleep, barely paying attention, drawing from the subconscious, waiting for the viewer to pour their own life into.