Current sculpture and Video Series
This ongoing collection of sculpture and video visualizes the complex, restless dialogue of our bodies—the tension between what our mind perceives and the physical reality we embody. Inspired by embodiment theories, the work uses symbols to explore mind and body as one homogenous space—memory not separate from our bodies, but through them, extending into space. Drawing from the fields in Kansas, I want to visualize an abstract landscape of our experience. As a kid, I would cross the barbed wire fence and wonder through fields. Picking up random objects—a rock, skull, feather, dirt—that I felt connected to for one reason or another. It was a ritual, like a personal folklore, tying random objects together in some sort of emotive shrine to calm myself. By bringing objects together in a similar form, my sculptures and videos use the language of rural materials to vignette a psychological tension and the fluid dialogue between our inner and outer selves.