Artist Statement
“We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.”
- Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight
I build my artwork to reveal, discover and come to terms with the psychological, spiritual and emotional aspects of the human experience. By searching within myself, by looking into the light and the darkness of memory, I work to come into communion with others and myself using a language of visual forms and physical interaction. I have come to know the world in a visceral way through physical experience and create work that seeks to affect the viewer in a similar manner.
There are two built environments, the one that we physically occupy, move through and are contained by, and the one that is constructed within us. The human body and architecture share a shifting threshold between the sacred and the mundane. This transitional space is where an attempt is made to resolve interior conflicts of dissonant emotions. Through utilizing the house as metaphor, I arrest into forms of my own accord, artwork that engages with the lived experience.
I use materials in the service of their inherent meanings, connotative relations and for their expressive capabilities. Through the creation of autonomous objects and contingent space, near human scale or house, my work attempts to render a visual trace of the ephemeral connections between the spaces we occupy, both in and out, and the physicality of emotion.
“We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.”
- Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight
I build my artwork to reveal, discover and come to terms with the psychological, spiritual and emotional aspects of the human experience. By searching within myself, by looking into the light and the darkness of memory, I work to come into communion with others and myself using a language of visual forms and physical interaction. I have come to know the world in a visceral way through physical experience and create work that seeks to affect the viewer in a similar manner.
There are two built environments, the one that we physically occupy, move through and are contained by, and the one that is constructed within us. The human body and architecture share a shifting threshold between the sacred and the mundane. This transitional space is where an attempt is made to resolve interior conflicts of dissonant emotions. Through utilizing the house as metaphor, I arrest into forms of my own accord, artwork that engages with the lived experience.
I use materials in the service of their inherent meanings, connotative relations and for their expressive capabilities. Through the creation of autonomous objects and contingent space, near human scale or house, my work attempts to render a visual trace of the ephemeral connections between the spaces we occupy, both in and out, and the physicality of emotion.
