Statement

In the course of my MFA program I reimagined my studio as a laboratory rather than a production space, opening me to possibilities and leading me in more fruitful directions.

My practice is multi-disciplinary. Painting, hand papermaking, collage, and non-traditional sculpture open me to the liminal spaces where consciousness entangles with intangibles such as trauma, memory, resilience. I relish the shared company of materials that offer challenges and opportunities to co-conjure. 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.

Since childhood I have been fascinated by the elemental world, and how Nature can be a vessel for spirit, myth and memory. There lie tensions between the perception of what is real and the imagined and hidden worlds, sometimes a silence and emptiness that is anything but. I perceive Western concepts of time as ghostly constructs, haunted by dissolution, distortion, indeterminacy, non-linearity, tragedy. In counterpoise to these ethereal concerns is my desire to capture what is human and exquisite.  These ideas thread through my work, as does a desire to listen to the echo of intergenerational conversations.