My compulsion to create figures is less concerned with mimicry of form and more of an attempt to represent how the body feels. Over time I have begun to embrace a looser and more intuitive manner of working with found materials.
One of my persistent intentions is to reveal the symmetry
that human’s actions possess with other creatures and to natural phenomena. I wish to reveal the
primal aspects of human action as it is in accordance with the laws of nature. I wish to take a
rationalist and objectivist desire to experiment, to expose and reveal without an agenda of what
the final forms look like.
This is countered by an intuitive, formalist approach to art making, fueled with a romanticist
aesthetic. I tend to use found objects and abject, discarded debris and trash. More than an
ecological concern, it is an economic way of finding a source material that is ubiquitous and
abundantly available, where the materials’ past uses also fill them with residue, history and
meaning.