STATEMENT OF WORK

My interdisciplinary pieces address body, narrative, sexuality, nature, gender and ambivalent emotions in response to family, society, and art. By treating objects like actors in a composition, I examine my own agency, power and vulnerabilities in ways that aim to evoke emotional reactions in the viewer. Working in a theater as a teen, I witnessed narratives being transformed into environments, discovered the world of props and costumes and felt beguiled by their unknown histories. This formative experience resonates throughout my process.

Just as the body is a vessel for emotions, objects contain their own wisdom: working with domestic and found objects as my raw materials, I transpose different qualities to convey tension and contradiction, such as between attraction and disgust, or compliance and disobedience. Sometimes I place myself within my work by revealing parts of my process, such as repeatedly re-applying pigment to an installation or weaving a net in front of an audience. 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. Using my own voice has been a natural progression in revealing myself through my work.