I’m drawn to moments of connection—between people, within families, and within ourselves. My work explores small gestures where intention becomes visible through care, devotion, discipline, and resolve. Using tulips as stand-ins for the human figure, I express emotion through structure, posture, and movement.

These quiet actions—often overlooked—are what hold relationships together. Observing them helps ground my understanding of what it means to be human and the values I carry forward through the work.

-Rusty