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STATEMENT OF WORK
I am deeply interested in the intersection of the complexity of the physical body and the idea of an intangible soul. Working with medieval religious iconography and a surgical understanding of anatomy to render this interaction results in the serene humanism of Piero Della Francesca with its skin pulled off.
I am interested in the ways in which our internal physical embodiment shapes our understanding of the world, and how these inner lives are shared in a dynamic reciprocity with both our environment and microbiome. While I am fascinated by human physiology, both as an object of aesthetic beauty and as a site of biological complexity, I am more interested in the boundary between self and world. Through my paintings, I seek to complicate this border into a permeable membrane. Interior becomes exterior, and vice versa.
Overall, my work is an attempt to grapple with the fundamental questions of what it means to be human, to be embodied, and to be conscious.
To paraphrase Whitman: what if the body is the soul?
What if all we have are these tissues, networks, organs, microbes? What if we are just the scaffold on which a billion lives, and untold generations of genetic data intersect and unfold? What if we aren’t one life but a world? What would the sacred look like then?