dis/integration

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My work is both the desire to actively construct a personal history and the realization of the ultimate impossibility of this task. It has come to be situated in the space between the disorder of memory and the order of a history or system, such as language, that aim to describe, communicate, and connect present with past. The work I produce is thus the manifestation of a process of constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing; because the present continually becomes the past, this process is also one of continual reconstitution.

I use a variety of media to communicate this process to the viewer, yet I ultimately work to engage a three-dimensional space that surrounds the viewer, using elements of the sculptural, both the photographic and filmic image, and sometimes text. These serve me as devices and tools to create an installation involving relational parts that enact a whole. Using a variety of media allows me to integrate the tactile and visual immediacy of sculpture with the temporality inherent in both the photographic image and filmic image as evidence of memory and mutability. Further, the combination of these media facilitates the creation of a situation that emotionally and physically involves the viewer in my own subjective experience. As such, I want to manipulate the sensory experience of the viewer by confronting them with an intense awareness of their own body and of time. The intersection of physical and emotional experience coincides with my desire to identify with the viewer and to communicate the sensation of the extricative process of recollection and the physical struggle to deal with it.

In order to involve the viewer in the creation of a subjective experience, I employ the qualities of form, texture, repetition, and endurance draw from the influences of minimalist forms and ideas of theatricality, and from artists working since the mid- to late- 1960’s who were thinking to some degree in response to minimalism. These responses are specifically those that concern an awareness of the body and an emphasis on sensory experience.