STATEMENT
I am drawn to the grey areas between rationalizing and sensualizing experiences, whether personal, collective, past, or present. Sentimentality reverberates through my work, while also embracing the honest and visceral.
At the heart of my practice lies an exploration of the authenticity of emotions, the imprints left by beliefs, inhabiting a body, and the tensions created by gender and sexuality. My process begins with disassembling these complex themes into smaller, digestible fragments. Through experimentation, merging, reshaping, and removing, I distill these fragments into their essential forms. As clarity emerges, these elements coalesce into narratives that manifest as photographic series and immersive installations.
Recently, I have been focusing on translating these ideas into immersive multimedia installations. My approach to materials is intuitive and guided by their symbolic or sensory qualities. Clay embodies fragility, transparency evokes the intangible, water signifies purity, and wax captures the permanence of imprints. This openness often leads me to unconventional materials, allowing their inherent properties to shape the work’s direction.
Photography remains a constant in my practice. It serves as both a distancing mechanism and a means of uniting multiple perspectives, creating series that explore the sensual dimensions of my concepts.
Ultimately, the objective of my work is always resonance, with enough ambiguity to allow a place for reliability.
