I am interested in exploring the body as an interface for how we navigate the world, how we use it to form relationships with ourselves and with others, and how it functions within our visual culture to help us more fully understand ourselves and the society we move through. The physical body is the lens through which I experience my own sense of self; my psychological and emotional state is intimately tied to the state of my physical body, whether it is comfortable, lonely, confident or threatened. The acute sensitivity of my body fascinates me, and has led me to create objects that attempt to capture how it feels to live inside my skin.

I draw on a variety of materials, from jersey knit fabric to wallpaper paste, to create mixed media sculptural objects. I employ time, gravity and a carefully cultivated installation space as a conceptual framework in which my pieces can live. The objects that I make are still and quiet, with an almost meditative presence. I have always been comforted by quiet, still things, with their ability to make us calm and quiet, to slow us down and give us pause. There is much in my work that hints at a history of conflict and strife - things that are stitched, tied, stretched and hung - but these tribulations have healed. I am addressing a trauma whose time has passed, and what is left is a quiet intimacy and an appeal for sensitivity and understanding for the experiences that these objects have had.

This work is created out of an abundance of feeling; feeling that frequently overwhelms me with its beauty and violence. I want to address the full spectrum of intense, emotional physicality that runs through my body like it was a live wire; and transmit this intensity to my work. Through my work, I seek to more fully understand body experience as enormously complicated and multi-faceted, simultaneously deep, rich, conflicted and beautiful.

March 2010