Artist Statement

 

I began my creative life as a dancer, using my body in motion to explore the foggy expanse between consciousness and physical experience.  After a decade feeling unfulfilled in the choreographic confines of ballet and modern dance I transitioned to the less determinate pursuits of improvisation and butoh – inquiries into sub–intellectual direct expression that led me to my current performative, sculptural, and visual practice. I now utilize these modes as a means to directly examine that same foggy expanse as well as to relate to a world I find over-laden with questionable truths and unsure realities. To do that I continually return to my body (in an animal sense) and the body’s direct produce.  By its very nature the body has the potential for prime information – information that can serve as a much needed counter-point to the soul-less, manufactured, possibilities overtaking the human experience. I endeavor by working with my body to create work from a place more governed by my species than by my culture – conceiving with intellect but shaping and marking with as much organic honesty as I can manage in the hope of finding an underlying language that speaks to our species at large. Connecting the work with the act of making it – moving between the familiar and the unknown – the works that exist as much in process as in artifact and aftermath.