2017-2018
"Insulate" Live Performance Piece - 2017
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2014-2016
Statement
My sculptural work explores patterns of growth that occur in nature, primarily inspired by fungus, cocoons, pathogens, seed pods, and shells. I have been creating a series of sculptures up to four feet in height that are structurally amorphous and hollow. These sculptures are nest-like and curvilinear abstracted figures in intimate postures.
I have always been intrigued by the organic forms that nature creates as a blueprint for biological life. Repetitive patterns that insects use to create webs, nests, or cocoons, the tessellating Voronoi growth patterns of seeds, the way that the chitin in shells congregate in logarithmic fibonacci spirals; this is an innate programming. My impulse as an artist is to access that primal drive of building through repetition.
I delve conceptually into maternal relationships, shelter, emptiness, claustrophobia, isolation, and connection. I find flexible forms such as fabric enticing as their malleable nature makes them prone to weaving, draping, and conforming to forms like a skin. The marriage of flexibles with a rigid structure mimic a recurring theme in biological growth; archival skeletons with temporal flesh.
My work is an exploration of the body that connects the macroscopic with the microscopic, illuminating the common thread between all forms of life.
I have always been intrigued by the organic forms that nature creates as a blueprint for biological life. Repetitive patterns that insects use to create webs, nests, or cocoons, the tessellating Voronoi growth patterns of seeds, the way that the chitin in shells congregate in logarithmic fibonacci spirals; this is an innate programming. My impulse as an artist is to access that primal drive of building through repetition.
I delve conceptually into maternal relationships, shelter, emptiness, claustrophobia, isolation, and connection. I find flexible forms such as fabric enticing as their malleable nature makes them prone to weaving, draping, and conforming to forms like a skin. The marriage of flexibles with a rigid structure mimic a recurring theme in biological growth; archival skeletons with temporal flesh.
My work is an exploration of the body that connects the macroscopic with the microscopic, illuminating the common thread between all forms of life.