Artist's Statement
I am a concept driven artist working at the intersection of moving image and sculpture exploring nature, reenactment, the body and its messy relationship to the unconscious. I can most often be found in my studio experimenting with materials and crafting sculptures as props for videos, or filming on site in collaboration with a diverse array of people and environments. My work is project-based and shown through installations in which a found image, story or event is reenacted for video, taking on a magical or mythical status, with fantastical sets and bodily performances. These films are embedded back into or projected on top of sculptural forms, culminating in multiple intertextual layers of video, surfaces, and objects. This iterative approach is tactile and cerebral, honoring the emotional landscape of interiorities and inviting viewers to deeply connect with their own body. My work is strongly feminist and draws upon 1970's performance art/sculpture, land art, écriture féminine, traditions of experimental film and video, and psychoanalytic theory. As a queer, rural artist my work is generated out of a dynamic relationship to my natural surroundings that offer a fluid context in which to investigate boundaries—between self, nature, and others-- and how moving image forms render these boundaries permeable and transgressible.