artist statement
Landscape runs through my work as a historically constructed way of relating to an environment that I treat as both outer and inner. I am interested in what landscape means as a source for the material, relational, aesthetic knowledge of someone, developed through living inside an environment rather than looking at it from the outside. The after-image of a social encounter settles in the body the way a field settles into the person who tends it. Ecology, in my practice, is a social and relational condition, felt in the body, apparent in group role distribution, carried in our deep every day intimacies.
I am drawn to porous surfaces, for their ambiguity in the representation of truthfulness and the accessibility of the perceptible. In my works images dissipate through transparent projection screens, or plant dye spreads into transparent textiles. I work with materialities that imply soothing, hiding, charming, camouflaging, touching or harming qualities, depending on their inward or outward function. There is a persistent transfer of a corporeal imaginary to the tangible conditions of the real world. That transfer raises the question whether the new plane of vision that emerges is genuine, shattered, or somehow restored to something else outside the body.
My cinematographic work is in dialogue with my sculptural and textile installation practice. My process is experimental, intuitive, sensual, and often collaborative. I pursue surprise and discovery through the creative act of making – whereas in the final form I like to create experiences with a simultaneity of perceptions, confronting outside and inside positions; the realities of eye sight with those of touch and body perception.
