Statement

My path as an artist has traversed the practice of law, non-profit work, and a career teaching pilates and Gyrotonic®. Each has contributed to my development as an artist: the discipline to maintain a daily studio practice, the ability to conceive and communicate a message; an eye for balance in a composition; and a tactile awareness inform my working approach.

Concepts of duality and non-duality underlie my thinking and I am fascinated by what is hidden and unspoken. I think about the liminal spaces, the residue, traces, memories, visions, and in-between-scapes that offer glimpses into how we intra-act with matter and ideas. I have been exploring the use of linework as a means of defining space and iterating the tension between the real, the imagined and virtual worlds. Curiosity about the elemental world and how matter evokes the incorporeal is never far away. Thinking of my studio as a laboratory rather than as a production space fuels my study of material and form through painting, paper making, and non-traditional sculpture.

I am interested in nature's geometries, scared and fractal, and what lies beyond our small perceptions and human interventions. These ideas thread through my work as does the invisible hand of intergenerational trauma and its entanglements in time and space. I am drawn to artists working from a lineage of diaspora and am considering how my own work forms a dialogue with and a witnessing of the repercussions of displacement.