Artist statement

I think of my practice as a form of "energy wrestle". My process is... intuitive, although I often feel I need to explain myself more than this, but can never find the words.

In the studio I seek to animate supposedly inanimate objects hoping to let them tell their own stories. Sometimes a pile of materials will suddenly click into "being" but in the same breath they will crumble back to rubble. It's a game of chance. I frequently gravitate toward forms that are awkward, unsettling, or "wrong". To me, tension and "wrongness" describe the truth of existence more completely than order or rationality. Our existence is not inherently balanced or beautiful; at its core are chaos and trauma, which I believe feed into a truer, more profound sense of ‘Beauty’  

Research is just a starting point—a loose thread. Honestly, I don’t even "get" the research half the time!  I just want to feed the work something so as it feels "caught in the act," like it’s still becoming or decaying creating an encounter that the viewer is integral to completing, reanimating and reactivating it into something new. 

Ultimately, I am not interested in imbuing my work with a set criteria of meaning or a definitive conclusion as I don’t think I could, it always seems to evade me, sitting at the tip of my tongue, like scrambling to remember last nights dream.

Realising as one sculpture folds itself into another, the work will always end with a comma or a question mark, never a full stop?