My work investigates the body as a mediator between perception and experience in the effort to develop a theory of being. We are both seeing bodies and seen bodies. I am interested in the space where those two states meet. Research, art history, and art theory are central to my practice, as it is through reading and writing that I begin making sense of observations, memories, and ideas acquired from the world outside the studio. The studio is the place where my mind and my reality meet–a place of latent thought, slowly accumulating knowledge. My body is the vehicle through which this knowledge is manifested into physical reality.

The intangible accumulation of knowledge is described in the work–the thing, the sculpture–through the process of mold-making and casting, which allows for limitless reproduction of a single form. I replicate isolated parts of my body as a method for self-examination and close-looking, meticulously casting and collecting pieces of myself that are intimate, yet far removed from their origin. This distance and time create the space to think, question, and synthesize, while my body makes, grapples, and gestures to an answer or possibility. My work is quiet in this way: it speaks in signs, refusing concrete definition in favor of a liminal space of my own design.