/artist statement/
I am a movement-based artist working across experimental, analog modes of film, installation, performance, writing, and printmaking to study how bodies contain, materialize, and move through permutations of life and death, with emphasis on the generative, cyclical nature of disintegration and decay. I study how the body remembers, and what/whether/when the body forgets.
I work with intangible materials including movement, darkness, light, and time to create layered, unstable gestures that are unfixed in form but residual in the body.
I create afterimages.
With attention to the physical and psychic space of a room, a page, a screen, or a stage, my practice examines the unstable, mutable nature of memory through the bodily: that which resides in, lingers in, inhabits the body, whether of creature (including us), place, (eco)system, or material. Through the production of porous, fluid encounters of variable dimension and duration, my practice refuses fixedness and permanence.
Central to my practice is a contending with the inevitability and necessity of decomposition and loss. I am obsessed with unearthing that which emerges (only) when we release our hold on accumulation, preservation, and certainty.
Currently, I anchor my research within the geologic phenomenon of unconformity time -- that is, time that is considered "missing" from the geologic record due to erosion and other factors -- as well as ecological patterns of emergence, interdependence, and symbiosis.
I approach my work as a trained dancer: through the muscle memory of movement. I look at how the body expresses what it remembers in the viscera, through improvisation, and through that which is not choreographed or scored.
My work contends with unconformity as a site of grief: of records we do not and cannot know; of records that are lost and eroded. At the same time, I approach unconformity as bodies of possibility, speculation, and imagination, where things exist outside of defined boundaries and contours of what we touch, sense, and feel.