artist statement

I’m an artist who believes that art should always be moving. My work revolves on themes of the natural world, the body as a place, and togetherness. I strive to feel the past and present of the body with sensate awareness. Then I translate the visions and emotions into imaginative topographies and gestural worlds composed of living, growing, shapeshifting materials to explore visceral boundaries between desire, affect, empathy, and vulnerability as interconnected social forces that define our existence. For me, nature and my body are inseparable from the politics of location. Wildflowers and gestures blooming just at the speed of perception become metaphors for the entanglements of rural study, all the while holding the capacity for reinvention. I think of my art as devotion that pays homage to the effort of living in order for us to feel it in our bones. Flocking patterns reminiscent of Georgia red-winged blackbirds, a never - ending living sculpture, and movement choirs take the form of a sermon. My artistic practice is about mapping landscapes and feelings from inside the body and translating them into a physical language of dynamic movements of escape. Offering emotional experiences of living art that ignore boundaries between display and viewer, a body of work engaged with spiritual and social issues is created, while embracing the wisdom of a horizontal expansion of life. My work is a rigorously crafted group experience that asks how far can we go together in a world that feels like it's wrestling us apart.