My work explores themes of communication, gender, and labor, and is imbued with a profound sense of embodiment. My large-scale works play with and transform the languages and expectations of materials to create works that relate to the body and the body’s experience of space, or, spaces. Formally, I am interested in the processes of drawing in space, often at a large scale and with unexpected materials, and in particular how the drawn line unfolds in space and how the formal aspects of these lines interact to immerse the viewer in the work. I explore how “soft” sensibilities can be applied to different media and engage formal elements of sculptural practice such as balance, gravity, structure, and tension; for example, in “Spatial Drawings”, I bend and manipulate hardwood to create sculptural lines that are at once reminiscent of thread and of the body.
My recent and forthcoming studio works utilize slow, hand-making processes to generate modes of representing the rapid movement and proliferation of digital information and communication in contemporary life. Among my aims is to address the tension between digital/virtual technologies and our desire for the intimacies and richness of tactile, slow experiences. Through recent sculptural works, installations, material drawings, and prints, my formal focus is to explore relationships among color, line, movement, space, and perception vis-à-vis the speed and motion of digital information. In all of my works to date, highlighting materiality and the use of the hand are critical strategies in slowing down the speed of contemporary communication.
Hesitations (Altea/Vancouver) is a video and audio work that will weave together sight, sound, and making from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver and Miguel Hernandez University of Elche in Altea. Selections of audio from sound recordings taken in Altea will be used as templates for the design of a physical, thread-based work that will be constructed at Emily Carr. The making of this physical work will then be video and audio recorded. The video recording, along with the sound files from Altea, and sound files from Vancouver, will become the basis for the projected video and audio work to be exhibited in Altea.
Hesitations (Altea/Vancouver) is based on a previous installation work called Hesitations in which I used thread, line, and sound to transform pauses, hesitations, and communicative glitches extracted from recordings of intimate conversations into an immersive environment consisting of enormous, delicately rendered material forms. Taken together, the materials and relational elements of the piece convey the absurdity, possibility, and impossibility of intimate, communicative processes.
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