ARTIST STATEMENT

With my work I pull from aspects of my everyday life, deeply exploring the endless, personal and universal effects of the human condition. Through my multidisciplinary practice of mostly clay, wood, plaster, fabric and canvas, I am most interested in the contradictions of self-preservation. This exploration visually relies on referencing human and geological processes; both giving surface and form to my emotional expressions. These abstracted, self-portraits are architectural versus geological, destroying versus repairing, protected versus exposed. Together with revealing and concealing, intentionally and intuitively making the emotional physical, this process-oriented work produces a gradual equilibrium. They are expressionistic, while at the same time concentrated from a very informed and fluent understanding of my working visual language.