STATEMENT OF WORK

Influenced by the California Light & Space Movement and a background in dance, my sculptures explore the interplay of light, color, and movement. I use industrial metal screen as a semi-transparent canvas, which I paint and manipulate into lightweight encasements that react to each other and filter transmitted light. My process draws from the Martha Graham School of Dance where breath is the wellspring of all movement. I manipulate the metal screen to expand, contract, and enfold into forms that apperar between the inhale and exhale of a breath or the trajectory of a gesture.

My pieces are further activated by a vewer's movement around them. Each sculture is best understood as a composite of various perspectives. As one walks around each piece or redirects the lighting, there is transition in how composition, shadow, and color are perceived. Overlapped colors blend, hidden passageways are revealed, and currents of moiré shimmer across the faceted layers. I'm inspired to create sculptures that are not only visually compelling, but also encapsulate this fluidity of movement within an otherwise static industrial medium. Through repeated viewings, my work offers shifting perceptions that illuminate both the dimensionality and ephemerality of light, color, and form.