Statement

I am a multi-disciplinary artist who is constantly thinking about materiality and the mutable nature of space and time. What happens in the liminal spaces, the interstices of time, space, matter, and light? Do we experience a life in between lives? Where do we go when we dream, or stare off into middle space, summoning an idea? And from where are those ideas attracted? 

I enjoy challenging my own constructs around these questions through my studio practices. Painting, installation, hand papermaking, collage, and non-traditional sculpture open me to where consciousness entangles with intangibles such as trauma, memory, resilience. I am curious about the intrinsic nature and agency of matter itself, and where our mutual explorations might lead. The grand-daughter of genocide survivors, I am drawn to artists working from a lineage of diaspora and displacement, and to the importance of making art as an act of remembering in a culture increasingly obsessed with forgetting.

I imagine my studio as a laboratory rather than a production space, opening me to exploration and possibilities. Guided by questions around space, structure, layering, and transparency, my practice is low-key autobiographical. I possess a lifelong fascination with the elemental world, and how Nature can be a vessel for spirit, myth and memory. Therein lie tensions between the perception of what is real and the hidden worlds: sometimes silence and emptiness is anything but. For me, Western concepts of time and memory are ghostly constructs, haunted by distortion, fragmentation, indeterminacy, non-linearity, tragedy. In counterpoise to these ethereal concerns is my desire to capture what is human and exquisite.