STATEMENT
I’ve always been interested in collections. Even as a child, I held onto things. Mundane items became infused with emotional significance and maintained with great care. Birthday cards and old stickers were saved and cherished, beads from broken friendship bracelets displayed as precious artifacts. Various altars populated my childhood bedroom, contributing to a living visual diary.
As an adult, I'm still consumed with preserving the physicality of our experiences, particularly in response to an increasingly digitally-saturated landscape. I see the past as a living force, one that expands beyond the confines of a screen, one that presses upon our present, influencing our actions and, thus, coloring our future.
My studio practice leans in to these tensions, probing the ways our identities are molded through the intersections of the immaterial and tangible. Through a process of melting, tracing, crumbling and molding, final forms are literally and figuratively multi-layered, echoing the continual erosion and regeneration of memory. Resulting pieces are unearthed expressions that give tactility to my personal history.
My works today are not so different from those childhood collections. I’m still attempting to counteract the passage of time, to preserve, remember and enshrine all that remains temporal and yet ever present.
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