artist statement
Throughout my practice, I return to the motif of the web, the sea, the copy, the hand, and the cost of possession. I am interested in repetition; how we become patterns; how reality is sculpted in the predatory nature of memory; how we oscillate between holding and releasing.
Textiles, plastics, film are used to preserve, to create static enclosures for longing. The photocopy, found items, and digital image become the fetish objects, the copy of a copy, the preserved artifact of a desire that can no longer be fulfilled.
My work is a ritualistic performance. I make objects into bodies in order to understand what has passed through them.
bio
I am a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist working in fiber, collage, and digital multimedia. I hold a BFA in Studio Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Outside of my studio practice, I pursue interests in critical image theory and independent publishing. I once completed a crossing of the Pacific Ocean in a 38ft sailboat. Magic is real.