STATEMENT OF WORK

I’ve placed a cellist in a 9ft. tall chair, sculpted hundreds of tiny ears from clay, and performed with bio sensors that match breath to tidal movement. My mediums include everything from sculptural objects, printmaking, video, and interactive electronic technologies. The focus of my artistic practice lies in making the viewer conscious of the unconscious bodily rhythms of everyday life—breathing, walking, beating. In my most recent works I seek to compare rhythms of the human body with rhythms in the landscape, as a method to consider—and place within personal, felt experience—human relationship with the changing climate. I encourage the audience to slow down, engage in sensory perception, and find poetic refuge in moments of crisis. These multi-sensory experiences use the body’s circulatory system as a means of fielding questions about close listening and ecological healing. Through my works I invite viewers to consider the authority of their own somatic experience.

Devices such as repetition, liveness, and collaboration filter in the physical rhythms and movements of the body created by the accumulation of footsteps, breaths, and heartbeats. These tools place the viewer in the here and now, creating spaces to just be.