Artist Statement
My practice operates at the intersection of sculpture, painting, and performance, grounded in fiber and process yet expansive in its inquiry. Using rope, industrial textiles, drawing, found materials, and steel, I create sculptural works that explore landscape, memory, and the body’s relationship to place.
I approach the pastoral not as a romantic ideal but as a constructed myth shaped by ideas of purity, ownership, and control. The work reimagines landscape as unstable, wounded, and resilient, drawing from personal and collective histories, war archives, Catholic imagery, and feminist mythologies to consider how places hold grief and how the body carries memory over time.
Through knotting, weaving, and layering, I build dense, undulating forms that move between wall-based relief and spatial installation. These labor-intensive gestures function as both mark-making and record-keeping, registering time, movement, and physical effort.
The work exists in a state of in-betweenness, between painting and sculpture, joy and mourning, construction and collapse. It is materially playful yet emotionally charged, at once psychedelic, apocalyptic, and tender. I am committed to making work that holds space for complexity, invites slowness, and embraces transformation as both a political and poetic act.
