Lost is Found

1.  Dwelling Within   

My practice is an interior space: my head my heart speaks through my hands. It is within the chambers of my bloody fleshy scarred heart- it an image I have tried to describe through drawings words forms and actions. It holds a world of love and hurt and gratitude and passion – rifts of damage and use are evidentiary. The meaning of resilience with our body love and life is both physical and spiritual. To be open and damaged one closes, the scar remains and the opening begins again, the body heart has lived and died and been reborn, more beautiful with history and wisdom. Soft flesh-body and hardening age-shell expose strength fragility and immortality through love. The inside is not mean to been seen but must be seen.

2.     From Within Looking Out

This is the quest of my practice research, to step outside of it, to see what other can or might see. My studio is full of objects textures colors mementos photographs and books that complete the picture of who I am/have become. This access gives a full context to the works I create – personal information and orientation.

. 3.     Nestled Against

When I am in physical contact with my materials and tools I sometimes push forward with ideas  because I will understand the outcome better when the exhausting process of creating is complete for that  work. I can look at areas of my pieces and know what music I might have listened to in a certain area or what obsessive thought I might have been stuck on. Sometimes connections are made that were unintending yet raw and real and true. There is embedded information- writings and drawings- textures and forms and genitals and objects -soft and sensual and brutally rough and primitive. am working towards an orientation that is more accessible through clarity in my research writing, the execution of my sculptures and drawings with the hope of connection to the outside through both.

Trauma Study, 2022