“Chimera_ thing that is hoped or wished for but is, in fact, illusionary.”

                                                                                Oxford Dictionary

Artist Statement

My sculptural practice considers the intrinsic power of objects as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics while investigating the tension between the readymade and the handcrafted object. Using intricate motifs, I delve into themes involving ritual, domestic and liturgical objects, mapping, migration, magical thinking, longing, and identity. I collects mass-produced consumer objects that strike me as iconic of the everyday. These objects are often cheap, trivial, and disposable, yet I find unexpected beauties and meanings. Relying on informed intuition and process, I transforms the familiar and trivial into the mythic and fantastical by casting objects in pigmented porcelain slip, or through the repetitive placement of forms in my immersive installations. Separating objects from their original function, I contemplates ideas of authenticity and inherited symbolism. 

A born and bred urbanite, I have always felt separated from the external natural world. Instead I am fascinated by the man-made objects that shape the urban environment. Attending church first evoked my awareness of the personal symbolic meanings invested in objects, and how they can provide emotional sustenance, uncomfortable desires, and physical comfort. My studio practice begins with mining my collections. I examine the form and function of collected objects, reimagining how they might be used, or contemplating how their forms, separated from their function, suggest new ideas. By bringing the everyday into art and the art into the everyday, sculptures open up a dream-like space of unexpected associations and dislocations.