Statement:

​Using paper as my medium, I collage, fold, sculpt, weave, and paint, constructing diorama-like reliefs where planets or microbes can mingle with clocks, rugs, flowers, and bodies. The medium is an equalizer that flattens the distance between the cosmic and mundane, allowing interactions among the macro, micro, and human scale. Through the scale-agnostic quality of the imagination, we are freed from the “obligation of dimensions,” as Gaston Bachelard described in The Poetics of Space. We can see a flock of birds and feel in our bodies a fleeting sense of infinite sky, or glimpse the tiniest, perfectly formed mosses and burrow into chthonic realms of fractally-increasing, intimate specificity. To emphasize these relationships, the collage is layered in a visual palimpsest that suggests multiple moments existing at once – a non-linear concept of time.
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With this layering, I explore autobiographical memories, historical events, and myths on multiple levels at once. I am interested in how the world of our day-to-day experience, with its spreadsheets, dishes, pencils, and houseplants, intersects with the cosmological or spiritual plane – whether through the wondrous discoveries of biology, astronomy, and physics, or through rich symbolic systems like astrology, tarot, or the Catholic and pagan religions of my ancestors. My hope is that the conceptual boundaries normally dividing these realms can be transcended imaginally, and the connections we make will give us deeper insight into this mysterious existence.

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