Just because you carry it well, doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy.

Collaborative Statement

When you meet someone, feel an instant connection, and become fast friends, it’s like you suddenly found the other half of your broken seashell on the beach. That's what happened. We suddenly knew we were on the same wavelength as people and artists. We learned that we love paper, painting, and the best tool/toy boxes of the artworld— drawing and printmaking. As a collaborative duo, we enable each other’s exploration of weird color combinations and obsessive desire to try new materials—always searching for something sparkly or that reticulates. Fascinated with dancing shadows and the ways plants enrich our lives, we bonded over mental health struggles and art geekery. But one of us is more comfortable with words and thankfully, the other is a master of meticulous studio record keeping—always knowing what was mixed together.

In this body of work, we explore a canopy of weirdness based in biomorphic forms, distorted pathways, and internal dialogue. We challenge each other to lean into our struggles and burdens, and use them as fuel that feeds the chaos of the process – cropping, collaging, and slinging concoctions of wet and dry media. What results are complex mixed-media works on paper that pull you in, twirl you around and spit you out upside down, leaving you to wonder.