STATEMENT OF WORK

My sculptures, installations, and drawings begin by applying pressure to objects and written language, cracking open their systems, and distending them into an expanded space. Putting ideas through the wringer, taking-apart-and-putting-back-together is my research and my practice. I address many subjects in my work: the gendered nature of politics and power, classical mythology and contemporary literature, tension between the haptic and the retinal, and the body’s visceral reaction to its environment. I incorporate visual puns and material onomatopoeias: line becomes edge becomes surface, traversing a borderline of two and three dimensions as a way to think through perception. 

The processes I use in the studio pass images through states of being (for instance: from photograph to drawing, to sculpture, to painting) both furthering the distance from the original and leaving the physical trace of my hand. There is a search for the vestige’s origin that I’m interested in—that archaeological line we follow, hoping to find answers to write the history, to make the myth.