Artist’s Statement
At the heart of my DNA is texture. The fabric of my life evolves from my sensed contact of my skin with the mundane – my fingers to paper, tissue, metal, my feet to rugs, dirt, shoe leather. I am nested in the moment of sensory contact that itself becomes an impulse for movement. Answers emerge through the movement of body and cloth. It is an intimate partnering like no other. At once, this partner shows up as the rhythm of my hand/brush to paper; at other times, the layering and enfolding of cloth over my body reveals a new anatomy, a new vocabulary of movement. Cloth finds its origins in surprising places – packaging wrappers easily dismissed as trash, trade magazines whose pages provide the fodder for abstract sculptures, the scratching sound of graphite against watercolor paper, the crack of fabric-made-whip against my flank – cloth emergent, cloth transformed. Cloth is always in a state of becoming through a process of deconstruction – the bleed of watercolor as it flows into neighboring territory, the crushing of paper beyond recognition to render a whole new ‘linen’ sculpture, the tearing of silk as I pass through its membranous web, the quality of silk crumpling to the floor. The art begins in that poised moment when many skin-like textures of material meet my human skin. (t)issues. I dance out the answer, not even knowing the question.