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STATEMENT:

The impulse to mark, undo, edit, sift, revise and build inspires my work constructing/deconstructing. My process oriented and ritual based practice explores change, conversion, transience, and transformation. 

My practice is influenced by cycles found in nature: incubation, growth, decay and revitalization. I'm exploring the relationship between the formal and the familiar, the synthetic and the natural, destruction and creation. 

Engaged with line, circle, gesture, and interruptions, my work is pushed and stretched by dichotomies: empty/full, conceal/reveal, light/shadow, pain/beauty, intent/surrender. My surface matter –  materials that I will re-purpose- are typically hidden from view, ie. Tyvek, tarlatan, gauze, and traditionally used in foundations of houses, books, or clothes.  

Additive/ subtractive processes play a significant role in exploring positive and negative space, both formally and conceptually.  Burning and blading are marks that although cannot be erased, create space.  Threaded or unthreaded needles piercing through paper and coming back out again, is used as much to stitch and bind, as it is to draw line and interfere.

My ever-shifting installations, consisting of fragments made in the studio, include traces of other works. This reflects my preoccupation with the elements of  control and chance, transience, and uncertainty. Uncertainty holds both anxiety and excitement.  My work contains artifacts of these explorations.