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ABOUT
The misguided assumption of my receptiveness to the space around me is a central focus within my practice. By exploring pathologies of emotion and its physical manifestations in living organisms, I often find myself at the intersection between art, science, and psychology. My work utilizes video, photography, performance, installation, text, and soft sculpture. Bacterial growths and materials derivative of the human body are used to foster connectivity between persons through different modes of art practice analogous to therapy. These holistic remedial practices become decontextualized and made more digestible by creating work that activates an emotional response. In this way, sensing something becomes understanding. My work often explores ideas of dependency, vulnerability, coping, and attachment, integrating the residual of both psychosomatic and corporeal experiences. Through introspection, I investigate the significant role our relationships play in our daily lives and explore how coping and defense mechanisms can be manifested through representations of the body, tangible objects, performances, text, and photographs. By considering our connection to the environment by means of activity (reproduction, growth), behavior (animalistic, survival), aesthetic (the natural world and human systems mimic each other via patterns, proportion), and function (collaboration), I aim to call attention to “an exploration beyond the realm of the visible and rational [within domains] of the mind—science, psychology, imagination.”
1. Dalrymple Henderson, Linda. “X Rays and the Quest for Invisible Reality in the Art of Kupka, Duchamp, and the Cubists,” Art Journal (1988): 323.