Works | Love of Lines

I make sculptures and paper works that are bodily and wounded. I choose materials that hold memory, such as paper and clay, whose nicks, markings and imperfections can never be fully erased. My work explores the intangibility of memories and stories through formal materialization, a semi-desperate attempt to hold on to that which is ephemeral. I work from the premise that lived or inherited experience exists in a non-linear way within the vessel that is my body, which stores non-verbal information and releases it back onto ourselves, to others, and even through cellular exchange. Nothing is ever fully contained or dormant within these bodies, teeming with visible and invisible scars. The physical manipulation and distortion of these materials is embodied with the intention to explore and discover, tearing open old wounds, moving directly into the pains and pleasures, discovering what lies within. The works are both portraits and documents, and a means to access the past that can no longer be physically held.