STATEMENT OF WORK

My practice is informed by the observation of techniques and processes employed by mechanics and machinists, the insides of body shops and classic car showrooms. Daughter of a mechanic, early curiosities around my father's work developed into an inclination to disassemble, reassemble, to examine the underside—look beneath the hood. Drawing from both the history and materiality of the automotive industry, with particular interest in the factory production of parts, the most recent works began with reclaimed “Sparto” style motorcycle taillights and were finished by the same processes through which hot rods are customized: filler, primer, blocking, sanding, three-stage paint, buffing and polishing—including custom cast glass lenses and machined trim rings. The junkyard is utilized as a site for material reclamation where my body is the mechanism to re-enliven the closed existence of discarded parts—making sensual the industrially-produced.