Where there is a nothing, I create objects to stand in and speak for it in poetic narratives.
My process involves creating a meeting place for conundrums:
intuitive action/systematic puzzles - desire/denial - cozy/dangerous - giving/receiving - hers/his....
My ideas map and hold allegories of Landscape, Language and Home,
while staying grounded in the inherent meanings of every-day materials and circumstances.
For example, a grommet could be a shoelace lacer,
or just make a hole more evident by surrounding it, or it tempts someone to look through it or to touch it.
But then the mind wanders to:
Where have I gone/walked? or What was I doing in my favorite jeans 10 years ago? or maybe, My sails need tethering.
These kinds of relationships that people have with language and objects are what interests me the most.
I am particularly fascinated by the secrets that man-made or natural ephemeral lines reveal:
plane flights that eventually end at a destination,
words that disappear into the void of hearing,
gun shots that travel unseen until impact,
water dripping to create a small pool,
a fable gone wrong,
night fall, sun-up,
a memory.
In the midst of all this, we can comfortably mingle in the grey areas, where no day is mundane, and ritual meets routine.
