ARTIST STATEMENT
My work invites viewers to experience their bodies as objects in a cosmos of other bodies and objects. The installations encourages reflection. This can be literal, as in the case of mirrors, or in a more-broad sense, they ask the audience to reflect through metaphor. The sculptural forms are meant to be at once familiar and alien. They may evoke recognizable objects such as mountains, human figures, and vessels, but they are not direct illustrations of those objects. They are tipped over, exaggerated, or under-rendered versions. In this way the objects become a means for investigating the certainty the viewer has about the world around them and the categories of sorting they employ. My work provides an opportunity to disrupt ordinary patterns of thinking, to feel one’s place in the cosmos, to intuit being and from that intuition to begin repositioning and reorienting oneself to the Anthropocene. One might question whether humans really are the center and dominate force. What is important in this work is not seen, it is the withdrawn understanding we experience and feel but have difficulty articulating.