My work is primarily concerned with the exploration of individualism and cultural identity.  So often, we are like vessels sometimes revealing and other times concealing the interior landscape of our identity.  I am fascinated by these sacred landscapes and by the ease in which, in an instant or over a long lifetime of experiences, human nature emboldens us to construct sheltering, self-preserving barriers that help manifest a sense of our own individualism.  It is this psychological process by which humans reveal and conceal the space we call “self” that intrigues me.

 

In this sense my work might best be described as metaphor, an illusion to both the imposed and imagined definition of identity.  Whether through vessel, wall piece, or sculpture, I am exploring the perceptions of identity and its relationship to society.  I manipulate the physical division of space, certainly.  I am a maker of objects.  But I also explore conceptual spaces—the divisions of culture, history, ideology and perception.  These are the barriers that help define human individualism, essentially universal yet miraculously unique, even flawed.