In my work, the body is an instrument of experience as well as a container for these experiences and memories. I am intrigued by attempts to control the body when it is influenced by strong emotion, physical stress, and meditation, and am interested in how these particular states reveal themselves in physical terms. I am drawn to the idea that the passage of life is reflected in the body’s physicality and how the collection of memories and experience are contained within.
Using the body as a lexicon, I create sculptures that challenge the body’s bisymmetry and explore the capacity for corporeal form to reflect and contain emotion. My body is my subject, allowing me insight in selecting postures reflective of specific mental states and based personal experiences. The body is both container and contained. As such, my works are made using molds from my body, and then casting forms to fill the voids left in my absence. It is essential to my work that I experience the containment and vulnerability of the mold-making process itself; it connects me physically and conceptually to the resulting forms. The subsequent cast forms are manipulated, reassembled, and reformed. Working with the body’s bisymmetry, the result walks the line between a sensual, undulating form and a revolting deform. The work is self-referential, but also in a disconcerting way; speaks of absence, contortion, confinement, and manipulation.