Artist Statement

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My practice is a search for meaning in what is missing. It consists of two distinct bodies of work: fabric sculptures and installations concerned with memory and identity, and oil paintings that explore how meaning is constructed through images.

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My sculptures begin with impressions of the human body cast in fabric. I tear, fold, distort, and reassemble these fragments into new forms. The work explores memory as lingering presences rather than an objective recollection. Fragmented bodies recur throughout the series and are put together into uneasy unions.

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My paintings explore the process of making sense of images. They are rooted in architectural representation and influenced by the iconography of temples, churches, mosques, museums, and other spaces of meaning; they investigate how images and geometric forms come to carry significance. Recurring shapes become characters, while their relationships and compositions suggest narratives. The paintings can be seen as an infantile symbolic language.

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Across both bodies of work, making is a form of contemplation. I work spontaneously and allow meaning to emerge through the process rather than beginning with a fixed interpretation. Meaning is volatile, continually assembled, distorted, and rediscovered.