ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a multidisciplinary artist investigating the duality of the individual and collective as it relates to memory, desire and marginalization using ephemeral materials within process driven mixed media, performance and installation works. Found materials allow me to explore the duality between the individual and the collective as it shapes the construction of personal, societal and historical memories. My practice is built on collecting, altering and combining ephemeral materials, thread and unrelated subject matter that can range from hand written notes to idle exchanges, which develop into accidental and intentional collaborations. The use of thread in my work represents connectedness, power and fragility. Many cultures and myths use string as a metaphor for life, and is a volatile object that can be cut, broken, tangled, knotted, and stitched. There is grandeur in the simplicity of string to be both powerful and vulnerable. Similarly, life is composed of complex and curious entanglements, cuts and ties between past, present, and future experiences. My work challenges the individuality of personal memory through a social and cultural reconstruction that engages desire and longing to re-contextualize marginalization.