STATEMENT OF WORK

My freestanding work explores an interest in cinematic sculpture: using forms found in theatrical flats (façades) to form barriers to the viewer’s movement. These pieces depict fences, barriers, doors, window frames– structures that direct the human body and gaze. I’m interested in their potential to frame personal experience as parentheses, and how, through their scale they can become bodies themselves. The introduction of color into these works is a bathing ritual- they are washed with dye again and again. The dye sticks to certain areas – it flows to and pools in sites of excavation/violence. Much like autoimmune malfunctions in the skin, the areas affected most are sites of prior bodily trauma.

Lately I’ve focused on compressing my interest in material narratives into wall reliefs/paintings. In my wall reliefs, by taking a mold of an assemblage and casting it in plaster, I emulsify the elements, to be considered with the same care. Clumps of detritus make forms and marks that metastasize across a built landscape, transforming into personifications of internal states. These pieces are release valves for personal inward narratives that are often too complex to verbalize. The mental tornado of a panic attack spills over the edge of the vessel of verbal language, but visual language takes over as a way to distill and filter information.  It is a way to evaluate the built environment surrounding us and determine how it reverborates with our personal emotional environments.