Work 2007-2012

With these past works I was drawn to the space where the visceral and structural meet, to objects with an obscure line between body and architecture. In the interstice between the two exist the opportunity to symbolically explore paradoxical states of the prodigious and intimate; the monumental and vulnerable; the absolute and the fallible.

The works below utilize a variety of materials including clay, resin, wax, and paper. Through examining varying physical properties, whether mutable, transient or permanent, these often-contradictory elements present the possibility to explore seemingly irreconcilable experiences, such as permanence and impermanence, possibility and unattainability, stability and instability.

With past studies in Anthropology I have always been drawn to the complex and shifting meaning of artifacts.  Artifacts carry within them many layers, from a particular history and purpose, to the new meaning it takes on as evidence and records of a past place, time, and people, as well as the alluring and enigmatic layer of their often-fragmented forms.

Through the process of dismantling and reconstructing, objects move from relics of their former self to something new. In this transition meaning shifts from what the object was to what it will be, creating an absence where stability and meaning can be questioned. In this mutable state the absence acts not as a lacking but a potential for a rebuilding, the opportunity of a new structure to be built from the debris of the old.