ARTIST STATEMENT
The figure has remained the most essential component throughout my work. Yet,
in an effort to address the body, my most recent work is a departure from the
figure as a form. In its absence, the presence of body is realized.
I begin by building constructions out of fabric - sewing, painting, and dying.
The fabrications are then combined in situations, specifically systems of washing.
Documenting the action and installation with photograhy provides a foundation
for the construction of these paintings.
The act of washing relates to ritual, attraction and repulsion, along with ideas
of containment. The sink is a container of water as the skin is a container of
blood and other bodily processes. I find elements that remain ambiguous
and unnamed allow implications to extend beyond dirty laundry in a sink. While
at the same time, I do no want to deny the evidence that the object submerged
in water is cloth. Stitching along the folds and tucks makes this apparent and
suggests clothes as the most superficial idea of skin. Clothing is a consistent
companion to the body. The wet, pliable, expanding, and contracting folds simulate
the more internal and vulnerable skin, the body in relation to anatomy.
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