I was born and raised in the U.S. as a first generation American of Estonian heritage. It is in part this duality of cultures that has led to my interest in navigating the spaces of the “in-betweens”. By this I mean, areas that are difficult to define and have varying sets of rules. In my work, I examine the paradox of fact and fiction created within systems of logic and perceptions of structure. To explore this murky area of “in betweens”, I employ truth and falsity in search of distinctions, failure, and absolutes. I make work to ask questions, and try to find the answers in the process. Through an interdisciplinary approach that involves printmaking, painting, sculpture, and new media, I create images, environments, and situations that teeter between reality and illusion. These metaphorical spaces take form in three ways: flat, image-based works (a representation of possibility); objects (reflecting the impossibility to escape their physicality); and installations that combine and juxtapose these elements in order to examine the complex relationships and causal effects that develop from these interactions.