STATEMENT OF WORK

I explore materiality by giving voices to inanimate objects. By treating objects like actors in an overall composition, I examine my vulnerabilities in ways that evoke emotional reactions in the viewer.  
Just as the body is a vessel for emotions, objects contain their own wisdom. Working with domestic objects as my raw materials, I transpose different qualities to convey tension and contradiction, such as between attraction and disgust, or compliance and disobedience. My narratives blend what is physically there with personal associations. Once I have transformed raw materials into new entities, I stage a scene, such as dyed bed sheets, draped or hung, to be taken as shrouds or the bloody evidence of a recently deflowered virgin.
Sometimes I place myself within my work by revealing parts of my process through ritualistic performance, such as repeatedly re-applying pigment to an installation or weaving a net in front of an audience. By introducing seemingly innocent scenarios, I aim to subvert the narrative with something unsettling through layers of distortion. I experiment with distressing a piece, or leaving it outdoors to be transformed by nature. Sound allows me to create a ‘presence’ in a constructed environment. I make field recordings, samples and voice recordings which I then edit and blend to create a soundscape, sometimes integrating live elements.