“I make artwork that represents the idea of things being temporary, and the potential that comes with it. I use visual metaphors like blackbirds, feathers, bones, and eggs as stand-in characters representing our human life cycles. I combine different printing, drawing, and sewing methods to create pieces that tell a story. I am interested in how people think about their own mortality and how that affects their perspective.

I am inspired by writers like Carl Sagan and Gaston Bachelard, who explore the idea of being mortal through science and philosophy. I look at contemporary illustration, art nouveau, and traditions in printmaking for compositional cues to help build the work, and give it visual voice. I also examine traditionally-feminine crafts, like quilting, to explore my own identity and where I fall in history.” - Livingston