Biography
Sometimes we think we know something, but we only know it in the most abstract way, which means we may not know it at all. I am interested in making objects that can be seen to have an immediate association with our bodies and nature. I would like to elicit contradictory feelings of repulsion, familiarity, and attraction. My work ceaselessly establishes connections between the body and nature. The sculptures are an accumulation of the unknown, a world far beneath the peripheral view we have become accustom to. They can be seen as a conglomeration of the dirtiness hiding within everyday life and the abstract beauty lurking far beneath the ocean’s surface, forest’s bottom, or the outer layers of the human skin.
The yarn is knotted layer upon layer, transmogrifying the fat, luscious, fleshy industrial felt, into something much more mystifying of an obscure nature. By combining these elements into clump masses, the work takes on a decidedly dirty and fleshy quality.
