(A more in depth statement on the artist's work is available by request.)
A variety of sources – from architecture to the sciences – often inspires my artworks. For several years, I created a series of sculptural installations which focus on translucence as a way to shift attention and perceptions to unseen things. Reminiscent of delicately woven spiders' webs, evaporating moisture, and intricate lacework magnified to an architectural scale, their fragility and remarkable transformation of materials are breathtaking and inspire awe. Beginning in 2005, I expanded my sculptural practice to include temporary outdoor interventions. With these projects, I identify specific sites and interject simple gestures often to emphasize a unique feature of the landscape. Accentuating relationships between the intervention and the surroundings, such projects raise questions about scale, the environment, and human impact.
More
recently, I have been pursuing a new direction with works which
reveal an unfolding interest in narrative. A direct outgrowth of the
temporary outdoor projects, a few short videos use sculptural elements
as props set into the landscape, where objects embody feelings and
substitute for characters in ambiguous narratives. Other site-responsive
projects are participatory events orchestrated as durational experiences
of the landscape, which on some level function as group performances.
More recent video works create a synergy between individuals and the
spaces they occupy to further experiment with narrative threads. In
such projects, video becomes the stage on which unique roles unfold
into at once whimsical and indefinable narratives.
Influential Citations
"Notes on Films: The camera, by moving around, subtly invites us
to embrace one character + exclude another; to look up + feel awe of a
hero or fear of a villain... The movie is the novel in motion; it is potentially
the least rationalistic, the most subjectivized medium." Susan Sontag
"What kept me going was, I think, that writing for me was a way of understanding what is happening to me, of thinking hard things out. I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself." May Sarton
