As a female artist working in the American South, I’ve always been intrigued by the contradictions that exist here and my relationship to them: the rural and the urban, decay and ‘progress’, technology and history, and of course the shifting tides of what it means to be a woman in America, particularly the complexities of womanhood in a place the American South.

I think of my style of work as “Southern Futurism”. My work explores these tensions via large-scale digital collage “scrolls.” These long, rectangular pieces evoke the narratives found in Asian storytelling scrolls and the ancient talismanic scrolls found in various faiths, from Buddhism to Christianity. At the same time, the work is deeply influenced by Street Art, and the dense layering that occurs when an urban wall is painted and pasted over repeatedly. The horizontal aspect ratio evokes the sensation of passing a long wall or a moving train that has been marked and layered with imagery over time.