ARTIST STATEMENT
What lessons have we known in our flesh, and what are we ready to un-know? My work poeticizes the relationship between the body and the environment as mirrors for one another. I am interested in what it means to be human. Humans are messy and dark and full of pain and love. We stumble through life learning and unlearning as we go from the marks of our ancestors to our current environment. We are highly individual, yet our foundational truths are the same.
I love both the common and the strange, and how symbols tap into a way of knowing that can’t be talked about directly. Textiles and performance art are the perfect media to relate the layers of meaning we take on---from plainclothes to uniform to sculptural costume, we project ourselves into existence. I am interested in humans most virtuous and humble places of finding themselves... alone on a stage, surrounded by others, standing and lying, running and writhing, climbing to great heights and falling down. Without judgement, but not without scrutiny. We are human.
I love both the common and the strange, and how symbols tap into a way of knowing that can’t be talked about directly. Textiles and performance art are the perfect media to relate the layers of meaning we take on---from plainclothes to uniform to sculptural costume, we project ourselves into existence. I am interested in humans most virtuous and humble places of finding themselves... alone on a stage, surrounded by others, standing and lying, running and writhing, climbing to great heights and falling down. Without judgement, but not without scrutiny. We are human.