Statement
My sculpture seeks to re-imagine a feminine narrative by linking personal experience and cultural myths with elements found in nature. I twist wire and incorporate old photographs with organic materials, a meditative process that pays homage to family ties across generations, an unbroken lineage suggested by intimate symbols of the life cycle, fertility, and rebirth.
When I was a little girl, I used to climb the stairs to the attic and marvel at my mother’s gowns and tea dresses- all taffeta, velvet and black lace. Another memory is playing in a neighbor’s backyard filled with strange plants, trees and fauna. These early observations inform my current assemblages-that a bone is like a branch is like a bent wire-as does thinking how dress forms reveal societal expectations as they both hide and reveal the female body. Hair from a doll’s head or a seedpod from the ground-such materials are repurposed in my work as aspects of clothing, where roof flashing becomes a mud-skirt or chicken bones an elegant bodice.
Ultimately, each piece I create acts like a spare reliquary, infused with ritual, mystery and a sense of hope.