artist statement

Artist Statement

I use my body, with my sculpture as a tool in which to navigate a specific landscape. This method of working places me between the fields of sculpture and performance. My physical actions take the form of practice runs, training drills, ambitious attempts at reimagining a sustainable existence.

I am currently exploring what makes people want to take part in treks, feats of endurance for activism and action spurring change through what seems ridiculous, unimaginable or impossible. I am making work that struggles with seeking moments of survival within a dysfunctional system, on the move, searching out opportunistic existence. I use a tinge of the ridiculous and make pieces that function but just barely, struggling to maintain a sense of drive through political and environmental doom.

My sculptures embrace the aesthetics of resourcefulness, repairing and adaptability while conceptually striving toward a resilience in which to navigate the climate crisis that connects us all yet widens the disparity gap.

Implementing a mechanism of survival is not a safe feeling; it is one of risk and uncertainty and maybe just barely making it. The solo nature of this work and many of my pieces reflect my extreme independence as a trauma response. It contains a longing for trust in the universe, in humanity and political systems to help and protect when needed.

There can be a grace to living on the edge, teetering on the brink, standing on shifting ground. This place of unease is a place of change and its discomfort can spur innovation and resourcefulness and a re-connect with each other and the environment that we desperately need in order to survive.