About

My work is a convergence of process, body awareness and the feminine. Through scale and construction all parts of my body are engaged in the making. I am aware that the repetition of activity has the potential to produce meaning. This awareness of my physical body and its participation in this process forces me to acknowledge making and doing as an active generator behind my work.

From literature, film and other reflections of cultural identity, I am exploring the veil and veiling as a way to examine the interpretation of gender in religion and culture.

As a female American Catholic, my experience of the veil exists within a very specific identity to me, while its parameters vary as experienced by others. I find this coexistence of familiarity of experience and exploration of other cultural perspective particularly intriguing to make conscious my place as a narrator. My engagement in this coexistence comes to life in my sculpture.

Here, the celebration of femininity is displayed by the beauty associated with the veil; this unconscious cultural association is the questioned by being confronted by the grotesque. Scale is used to make the viewer aware of their position in space and their interaction with form, as I am while making. The grandiose is approached by the repetition of manipulating humble, accessible materials.