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I have lived as shadow-
Slipping in and out of existences,
Learning the art of
stillness.
Silence
becomes translucent
refuge.
My poem declares my central awareness: animate becomes inanimate, inanimate becomes animate—body becomes object, object becomes body—as I create representations of my physical space. A shadow, a trace, is retained. It is my body, but it is not.
By weaving together memories, myths, and facts, my current work questions perception by uncovering a multiplicity and layering of truths. I hope to provoke a subtly skewed awareness of the ordinary, and to deepen an understanding of physical and psychological relationships to place.
Strong relationships between our bodies, everyday objects, and the spaces we inhabit become our life architecture. We yearn to quantify ourselves. We yearn to measure the intangibles of experience. How much do I encompass? How might memories and emotions translate into physical objects?
Recently, I have been exploring how collections of small objects create larger portraits.
Individual objects reference individual experiences. When put together, they become a powerful human collective.
I desire to complicate and clarify the interactions from which personal identities arise. Does physical size carry an equally sized impact? Do physical boundaries truly dictate our limits? How do we surpass them?
Through performance, video, sculpture, and text, I explore the distance between physical and psychological space. I interpret the impact of social events and their dynamics by delineating presence, absence, action, and reaction. These processes mark a passage in time and place; through them I construct an identity and awareness of the present.
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