Statement
I have an impulse to touch things. My work is about attending to these moments of meeting and touching (or not meeting and not touching). I work from my bodily impulses out toward the world. There is a desire for connection - with a forest, a body of water, a sheet of plastic, a lump of dough, my own child. I learn by tracing, holding, wrapping, tearing, eating, wrestling, mimicking, surrendering. Physical dialogues emerge as I probe the boundaries between self and Everything Else in a hungry attempt to collapse the distance between us. It is always a struggle, and I generally fail. But the desire for Entanglement persists.
New meanings emerge from simple relational gestures as I follow my body through an environment or around a material. Histories and subtexts poke through from other times, places, ideologies, lines of thought and are folded into the work as we move and respond to each other (the world and me). It’s an unrehearsed process of co-becoming, often in the spirit of Buster Keaton. The impulse to touch grew from a sudden return to my body as a result of motherhood.