ON LIVING AND MAKING ART:
"i treat life like one of my paintings. or, it's the other way around, because living came first. / (making art made it visible, though. / taught me a new way to live. to make peace with the way i already am.)
"my practice is intuitive and emotional and deeply personal. / my practice is abt embracing randomness and imperfection and paradox.
"i document the destruction. i lean into the disarray. i keep the crossings out.
"dramatic intense impulsive frantic calculated wild restrained measured intentional quiet curated witty playful thoughtful honest unpolished diplomatic ambiguous romantic raw direct authentic poetic open-hearted desperate n afraid sometimes but nonetheless trying to be vulnerable...
"... are some ways i'd describe myself. and my work. (i mean, it's an extension of me.)"
Read more from Tilly’s Artist Statement here.