Research, Inquiry, + Process

I am fascinated by the moments before and after the snap. I played semi-professional women’s tackle football. I have lived the tension and excitement that exists before the split-second flip to action. It is potential energy; it is inspiration borne from what can and will come next. 

I am interested in the potential energy of material and the kinetically engaged body in artistic expression. To this end, I study and reimagine the visual and structural capabilities of materials, processes, and our physical selves. I use these possibilities as an energetic precipice from which to innovate and transform. I work in wood, clay, glass, wax, ice, and mixed media to create art objects and design solutions in three dimensional space

The interactions between liquid wax and solid ice; clay and melting glaze; glass and overwhelming heat; rough wood and a blade; a body awaiting motion; these relationships are the moment before the snap. They are the potential energy that exists before these forces collide. They are the place from which I transform materials into objects; artifacts of process that explode, explore, and record their own possibilities.