Statement
Working across media, using labor intensive techniques like stacking, weaving or sewing, I commit to the physical process. I construct a range of objects and immersive, invented "landscapes" for the audience.
As a maker, the hand is essential in my art as is the intuitive and the imaginary. I discover and repurpose all manner of materials, using their substance to speak about hierarchies, the undervalued, under utilized and the sustainable. Working with vibrant color and texture to engage our senses, memory and emotion, I playfully approach meaning. Within these fabricated social settings our accepted notions of symbolic/actual, function/uselessness, public/private, individual/systems are constantly in question.
Can we find hope in objects, shelters or sanctuaries, even if only momentarily? Can art initiate action?
As a maker, the hand is essential in my art as is the intuitive and the imaginary. I discover and repurpose all manner of materials, using their substance to speak about hierarchies, the undervalued, under utilized and the sustainable. Working with vibrant color and texture to engage our senses, memory and emotion, I playfully approach meaning. Within these fabricated social settings our accepted notions of symbolic/actual, function/uselessness, public/private, individual/systems are constantly in question.
Can we find hope in objects, shelters or sanctuaries, even if only momentarily? Can art initiate action?
