Artist Statement
 
My work negotiates the friction between cognitive perceptions, dreams and the subtle failures to distinguish what is real and what is not. For me, the human body is a constant source of inspiration, a universal form we both inhabit and relate through.

Representational sculptures and renderings of the body are often approached with a residual degree of respect, care, interest, and distance because of their implied intimacy. Their familiar forms create a sense of personal space that interacts with our own. Therefore, eliciting our sympathy through an understanding that representationally, they embody the feeling of consciousness. My work evokes the uncanny through the slippage and subsequent defiance of expectation that is almost imperceptible.

I approach sculpting and composing images similarly through layering—physically, pictorially, formally, and conceptually. Combining clay objects and image, both found and made, my most recent solo exhibition Soft Walls, Deep Water is an examination and exploration into ephemeral spaces, both physical and psychological. Grounded in intuition and guided by a desire to find poetry in fragmentation, I explore place vs, space. Thinking about place as fixed and recognizable, and space as internal, shifting, and felt. The collages function as quiet thresholds between those two states. Each composition balances the material logic of collage with the dreamlike syntax of the subconscious. Engaging in the acknowledged futility of attempting to define fleeting moments in archival ways, I strive to communicate the subtle complexities of feeling, and of being.
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Eyes close, each eyelash meets another. Sun as seen through eyelids, is a dull orange.