My work responds to developments in society, engaging with environmental and mental health issues, being attentive to fragility as well as strength. I work organically with wood, clay, paint and other mixed media to create sculptural installations. My work is both experimental and mindful, letting materials and tools guide and determine gestural expression. I am drawn to materials in a state of decay, which are then preserved and given new life. My project, tilted Scree, began its journey in 2023 with clay and the desire to create movement. I chose to leave the clay unfired to reference fragility and to allow the material to find its way back into the earth. I developed a process that involved responding to failures, working with fragments and remnants. Focusing on movement through debris, I seek to explore the tension between the impulse to move on and the pull to stay. The installation consists of multiple components, with materials that include wood, metal, wool, threads, clay, baked parchment paper, acrylic paint and canvas. The clay wall paintings include a self-portrait that examines my own experience of being displaced from myself. The floor installation, composed of fragments, is conceived as an open landscape, a foundation built from rubble, across which we can travel mindfully and question the longing we may have for our past.
