My work aims to uncover a process of seeing, both physical and metaphysical where preservation and transformation allow me to heighten the bonds that reunite us to the land and ourselves. A long history growing up in a DIY Car Culture, a family taken down by chronic, genetic diseases, my own battle with a degenerative condition and a car crash that would impede my brain and body for life are the driving force behind the content in much of my work. I use modes of drawing, sculpture, and photography as a lens to explore the cyclical paradox of destruction and renewal.
Each artwork reveals the process of my own body’s changing capacities to create a heightened awareness of perception of ongoing embodiment. The results become physical objects, artifacts– rites of passage between land and sky that are built to be seen from different sides and present alternative perspectives. They reflect the similarities and duality of the human body and the landscape from the peripheral and interior points of view. They aim to exist between things, remaining open to the unconscious to occupy a liminal space between ancient and nascent while serving as space for acceptance and an offer of resolution. The drawings reference land mapping, cyclical cosmology, celestial observatories, where the body is the receiver in the pull and push between mental and visual sensations.
In methods of excavation and repurposing of fragmented and natural materials such as car glass, tire wire, and stones are embedded in clay and resin that have gone through the process of history and humanization as the potential of presence, not only physical but also spiritual. More often, meetings and collisions are seen to activate intersecting the beauty of life with the ongoing threat of its fragility, degradation and collapse as a point of departure. By repurposing and physically reshaping these materials, I explore reconstruction and instability as a path for freedom and possibility to nurture and heal the impact of our conflicts towards a resurgence of new discoveries.