Artist Statement
Learning to navigate the world with an unpredictable body, especially during this collective moment of reckoning with the permeability and precarities of all of our bodies, has me fascinated with moments of leakage. I explore the gaps where the inner leaks out and what should be contained escapes and becomes exposed, and the moments of impact where our bodies collide and blend with our lived environments.
My sculptural practice explores the spaces between our human bodies and the materiality of lived environments. As a body can melt into a couch or lean against a wall, working with or against designed objects, my work exists in these moments of potential permeability where our bodies are not so separate from the contexts of our surroundings. Skins of handmade paper swallow household items, broken chairs prolapse bodily blobs of rubber, nylon bulges, plaster seeps, pigments bleed and blend.
These sculptures - sometimes collages of pieces, sometimes autonomous beings - wrestle with figuration and fragmentation. Moments of specificity dissolve into formlessness, disrupting an understanding of a complete body and positioning the human body as a precarious and unpredictable material being. Pulling from art-historical depictions of the female body and employing feminist practices of fragmentation and reassembly, my work explores the phenomenology of a fleshy body that is a site of constant state change.
