Statement

My art practice centers on the vulnerability and impermanence of the human body, and the care it requires to persist. I shape body-scaled sculptural forms resembling skins, vessels, and shrouds through a slow, repetitive process of making and remaking, embodying the ongoing attention that bodies demand from self, family, and community. Their surfaces accumulate the physical marks of contact and transformation, and care holds them together as much as material.

Water is a collaborator and agent of change. I offer forms to rivers and streams, where water shapes, marks, and transforms them, leaving traces of sand, leaves, and sediment as its own inscription. What begins as a vessel becomes a shroud, completing a life cycle that mirrors the body's own fragility. Photography and video memorialize ritualized acts of offering and transformation, making permanent what the body cannot: the gestures of care, and the memory of what was held.

Thesis: Tracings, Embodied

Artist Talk, Lesley College of Art + Design, January 7, 2022